I can't find a way to resize my reiser partition, because I can't unmount my main partition, the only way I can do that is if I boot with the CD, but then I don't have access to resize_reiserfs. So I'm thinking I can utilize cfdisk to do my resizing for me - can I just delete my existing main partition in cfdisk, add a new one, one that's big enough to hold all the data I'm holding, but leave enough room for a second partition? Is this risky?

You will almost certainly end up destroying something doing it this way. cfdisk will only resize the partition itself, but the reiser filesystem will still think of itself being the origional size.

Do a search for how to use resize_reiserfs, IIRC you use this to shrink the reiserfs partition, and then you do what you said with cfdisk afterwards.

hmm...i was thinking of using cfdisk, then rebuilding the reiser tree.

I know about resize_reiserfs, but I can't do it because my disk is currently in use. If I use my slackware CD, it doesn't have resize_reiserfs anywhere.

Why don't you just copy resize_reiserfs over to the ramdisk that (presumably) the cd creates and run it from there?

If I only knew how to do that...can you tell me how to find out? (Or even better, tell me how, if it's easy).

Thanks a lot,
Cipher3D

Here you can download a bootable ISO of a fairly complete linux system. It's about 27MB for the latest version, but IIRC it has resize_reiserfs, and lots more. I use it instead of gentoo livecd's when I re-install gentoo as it has reiser4 support aswell.


http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/