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manojpawar
September 25th, 2009, 07:58 AM
hi,
I am using
$ sudo parted
command for resizing my partition I seen in my gprated tool that in the Partition tool on toolbar> resize/move option in hidden, thats why i am using this command but i am confused about
how to use

(parted) resize number start end
command

partition filesystem mount point size sizeused unused first sector lastsector
/dev/sda5 ext3 / 13.97GiB 13.27GiB 716.62MiB 176136723 205439219
/dev/sda6 ext3 /home 45.50 GiB 18.58 GiB 26.91 GiB 205439283 300849254
/dev/sda7 linux swap 5.59 GiB 300849318 312576704


please help me,I am confused regarding what should be first sector and last sector,I dont want to lose data.

Lars Noodén
September 25th, 2009, 10:35 AM
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_mono/parted.html#SEC25

http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/old-gnu/Manuals/parted-1.6.1/html_node/parted_32.html