Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.redhat
Date: 2002-04-21 10:09:15 PST

> Is it really possible to juggle the sizes of three ext3 partitions?

You'll need to convert the partitions back to ext2 before PartitionMagic will touch them.

The partitions have to be unmounted for the conversion, so its easiest to boot from a rescue CD/floppy. Then you convert a partition from ext3 to ext2 with:

tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hdax
e2fsck -f /dev/hdax

After PartitionMagic does its thing, boot the rescue CD/floppy again and convert the filesystems back to ext3:

tune2fs -j /dev/hdax
e2fsck -f /dev/hdax

Ian Pilcher