Resizing Reiser

[Jonathan Hutchins]

On Thu, August 12, 2004 10:33 am, Brian Kelsay said:

> Well, keep in mind that your system was unuseable in the first place.
> Those tools are meant to shrink or expand working partitions to a new
> size, not to fix screwups in the partition table or overlaps like you >
> had.

As far as I could tell prior to running the tools to try to resize the
partitions, originally created with fdisk, there were no problems, and the
system was fairly usable.  I was running a web site with squirrelmail,
MySQL, and some other goodies.  I think the tools may be complaining about
the last partition, which aligns by sector instead of cylinder (if at
all).

The problem was that 9 out of 10 times emerge sync would fail, and maybe 2
out of 3 emerge <package> runs would fail, aparantly because of the
existing but tiny swap space.  The goal was to achieve a more reasonable
swap space, and the result was an unbootable system.

The tools did not touch the /boot partition.