[Jonathan183]

Originally Posted by imranka

Hi,

I think partedmagic < 2.2 is not so easily available now. Tried torrents but no seeds, checked in the parted magic own website, no link. So what to do? Where can I get this?

One of their mirrors has version 2.0 here.

[imranka]

Originally Posted by Jonathan183

One of their mirrors has version 2.0 here.

Thanks Jonathan for the link. With 2.0 somehow I managed to boot in failsafe mode. But there its presenting me with a prompt. i didn't get what I've to type there. I checked with df -h and fdisk -l command, but what after that?

Appreciate your help.

[devils casper]

Do you have LiveCD of Ubuntu? GParted is pre-installed in Ubuntu and you can resize partitions with it easily.
I have a LiveCD of FC8 and GParted is available in it. I dont know where I have put that CD right now and I can't tell you exact location GParted in Fedora's Menu. I will find it soon and let you know.

[imranka]

I've two Ubuntu LiveCD left, both of them are stuck while booting from kernel

[Jonathan183]

Boot PartedMagic in failsafe mode then type menu. This will bring up a menu, try the second option 'start X in vesa mode' and see if GUI will start. If GUI starts use visparted to do the resize.

Ed: you could also try to configure X for your graphics card ... I think its the 3rd menu option.

[imranka]

I forgot to mention one thing: in the failsafe mode it shows something like "waking up devices" then it says "oops, cannot find any live media", and then it throws me into that terminal. There typing "menu" or "man parted" returns -bash: command not found.

So, I couldn't do anything else with that dumb terminal.

[Jonathan183]

Try the system rescue CD which also has gparted on or gparted there is a live CD or a hard disk install.

After that you are either stuck with a command line version such as parted running from a live CD or installing gparted on your system, switch off swap, unmount home and resize that way or leaving things as they are until you do your next system upgrade/install.

If you can't get one of the live CD options to work I'd be tempted to leave things until you do the next big install/system upgrade.

[imranka]

Heh, again it itched me. Got hold of an kubuntu 7.10 dvd. started qtparted, selected my /dev/sda8 and clicked resize, gave 256 MB. Then what? nothing. No sign of life. Tried with "format", even "delete" - no luck, no live. whats going on here?

And may ask something else?
From kubuntu liveCD how can I check my fedora partition? Are they automatically mounted or I have to do? If auto mount, then how can I find that? And in kubuntu I think I've to be root to do most of the command. So, how can I be root? there's no option for password or something in a liveCD.

[Jonathan183]

Just type sudo before the command you want if you need to run with root rights. For example open a terminal and type

sudo fdisk -l

for see your partition structure.

If you type

mount

you should get a list of all the mounts ... existing hard drive partitions are probably mounted to /media from the live CD eg /media/sda1, /media/sda2

Can you post the full fdisk output?

[imranka]

Thanks Jonathan for you quick reply. I've already posted the fdisk -l output on page #1.

And any idea about the strange behavior of qtparted?

Anyway, I can look into this only after 11 hrs