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From: Happy Oyster on 27 Sep 2009 18:32 On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:53:51 +0100, David Bolt <blacklist-me(a)davjam.org> wrote: >> Can't remember having seen anything about this. How can this ("adjust the size >> of the file system") be done? > >Here's a some articles on it. Thanks. I had meant: doing that with fdisk. Because I could not remember any hint on doing that with fdisk. But, obviously my memory was right. >http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/resizing-ext3-partitions-with-parted >http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions#How_to_online_resize_the_Ext4_filesystem.3F >http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/32002 That is a) old and b) something I prefer not to touch these ways... For Windows I found one or two tools which can do a resize. The journalling, which in the articles is mentioned, I had not thought of. Concerning the Windows stuff I remembered the bad old days when programs made sectors "defective" in the FAT and such sectors would not be copied as they were "defective". These sectors, being fixed at certain spots on the HDD, were used for copyright protection scams. I do not trust the Windows scene, so I all the time (doing such a resize recently) was not sure if the programs would work later... For Linux I would use brute force: copy the files to extra HDD, delete the partitions, make new partitions, copy files. >and here's a few man pages: > >man 8 resize_reiserfs >man 8 resize2fs >man 8 xfs_growfs > >> I would do such from a normal console (#1 to #6), so not with X. But my question >> aimed at the MUST to log in as root: to be able to mount a HDD or partition. > >No, you do not need to be root to mount a partition or hard drive. If >you aren't root, you will need to use sudo to gain root privileges. This I see as equal, because I compared it with "do the work as normal user", which I could not imagine to be possible because of rights. -- Interview mit dem Autor der "Reimbibel" http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=14183
From: DenverD on 28 Sep 2009 02:55 > This way you keep the users idiots, and they cannot free themselves out of that. > THAT is EXACTLY the Microsoft way. And THAT is EXACTLY the way NOT TO DO IT!!! > ****************************************************************************** thank you for your highly experienced and valued opinion. please be sure to log into KDE (GNOME, etc) as root as often as possible.. in fact, with openSUSE on YOUR machine you can set it to automatically log in as root with each boot...that would be grand, for you.. [NOTE to kids: Don't try this at home. This is just for the Happy Oyster...only he knows best for himself.] and, i wish you well as you rant on, without me. -- DenverD (Linux Counter 282315) via Thunderbird 3.0.1-1.1, KDE 3.5.7, openSUSE Linux 10.3, 2.6.22.19-0.4-default #1 SMP i686 athlon
From: Eef Hartman on 28 Sep 2009 06:51 David Bolt wrote: > Why would you *need* to run any GUI based program for administration > tasks? Try to install the MatLab (Matrix Laboratory) package without access to X, for system-wide usage. It CAN be done, but only by people who have done it a lot of times "the graphical way", as you have to create a "response file" with all of the options you WOULD have chosen in the graphical interface (like location of your FlexLM license file - it IS a commercial package). And no, the response file doesn't exist yet, so you don't have nice commented-out lines to choose from, you HAVE to know which options you want and what their syntax is. OK, you don't have to logIN as root, the install will work from an su'd window with access to the X-server. -- Eef Hartman, Delft University of Technology, dept. SSC/ICT
From: Eef Hartman on 28 Sep 2009 07:01 Happy Oyster wrote: > fdisk is best. Only, I forgot if it can change the size of a partition AND KEEP > THE CONTENTS. When the start cilinder is the same (and the end one is NOT within the fs, it always does). So to INcrease a partition's size: use fdisk to remove and then recreate the partition (begin cilinder the same as it was, end one - of course - larger) then resize the fs within the partition to DEcrease it is just the opposite: first resize the fs (I mostly make it smaller then the partition will be to save myself the exact calculation of "how large it must become" use fdisk to resize the partition then - if you use my method - resize the fs again to fit into the resized partition. All, of course, with the partition UNmounted, and when the disk is active in some way (another partition must stay in use or so), reboot after the fdisk commands to "reread the partition table" > To mount one must have root right, isn't it? No, you can delegate mount rights to normal users in the /etc/fstab, or when using udev/hal, those daemons will handle the root rights for you (that's why you can use a memory stick "as a normal user", the HAL daemon will actually do the mounting cq umounting). -- Eef Hartman, Delft University of Technology, dept. SSC/ICT
From: Happy Oyster on 28 Sep 2009 12:47
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:55:15 +0200, DenverD <spam.trap(a)SOMEwhere.dk> wrote: >> This way you keep the users idiots, and they cannot free themselves out of that. >> THAT is EXACTLY the Microsoft way. And THAT is EXACTLY the way NOT TO DO IT!!! >> ****************************************************************************** > >thank you for your highly experienced and valued opinion. > >please be sure to log into KDE (GNOME, etc) as root as often as possible.. > >in fact, with openSUSE on YOUR machine you can set it to automatically >log in as root with each boot...that would be grand, for you.. > >[NOTE to kids: Don't try this at home. This is just for the Happy >Oyster...only he knows best for himself.] > >and, i wish you well as you rant on, without me. You are ignorant of engineering work, and you are proud of it. This is the typical behavior of so many Linuxers. It is sad. -- Interview mit dem Autor der "Reimbibel" http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=14183 |