OT: redhat

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Confusious (Jay Ashworth) say:
> On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 09:43:13AM -0500, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> > Sure you can add pieces and expand a filesystem anytime you want
> > >if< you have the right OS. :-) :-) :-) AIX is the only one that
> > I know of that does that.  :-(
> 
> SuSE 9, XFS.

Filesystem is not the question.  PHYSICAL PARTITION (as in...think fdisk,
folks) is the issue.  I'm talking about needing to join two disparately
located partitions into one partition and expanding the fs that's on one of
them to include the space on another.  

Or are you saying that, given the right fs, you could have it bridge two
separate physical partitions, and therefore the contiguous nature of them
is rendered irrelevant?

If you want a real-life example:

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1             1      3320  26667868+   c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hdc2          3322      3450   1036192+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hdc3   *      3451      9963  52315672+  83  Linux

The Win95 partition isn't even -needed-.  I'd like to reclaim the space for
the Linux partition.  I don't see that as possible, as it's non-contiguous.
And no, I did not do the installation.

mark->
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