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Jeff W
02/09/2011 11:25 PM
post83064
Expanding QNX Primary Partition Help   
I have a HDD with 4 primary QNX partitions.  It was cloned from a 20GB HDD to a 40GB HDD.  The new HDD still has the 
same 20GB available for storage.  

I would like to expand the 4th partition to be able to use the new additional space. I am not all that familiar with the
 QNX OS and am only learning by what I can find on various forums.  

I have tried Partition Magic 8.0 to expand the partition but the option to do that is grayed out.  It says the file 
system is unknown.  Several other attempts with freeware utilities that I have downloaded and created a CD boot disk 
have not worked, either.  

With Partition Magic it would at least permit me to delete the 4th partition and create a new one.  I thought perhaps I 
could use that method instead of trying to expand an existing one.  However, it asks for the partition type, such as 
NTFS, FAT32, etc. None of the available options say anything about QNX.

Can anyone here provide any information on how I can expand or create a new 4th partition to make use of the larger HDD 
storage space?  Thank you in advance for your time.
Mario Charest
02/10/2011 8:09 AM
post83070
RE: Expanding QNX Primary Partition Help   

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Jeff W [mailto:community-noreply@qnx.com]
> Envoyé : 9 février 2011 23:25
> À : general-community
> Objet : Expanding QNX Primary Partition Help
> 
> I have a HDD with 4 primary QNX partitions.  It was cloned from a 20GB HDD
> to a 40GB HDD.  The new HDD still has the same 20GB available for storage.
> 
> I would like to expand the 4th partition to be able to use the new additional
> space. I am not all that familiar with the QNX OS and am only learning by what
> I can find on various forums.
> 
> I have tried Partition Magic 8.0 to expand the partition but the option to do
> that is grayed out.  It says the file system is unknown.  Several other
> attempts with freeware utilities that I have downloaded and created a CD
> boot disk have not worked, either.
> 
> With Partition Magic it would at least permit me to delete the 4th partition
> and create a new one.  I thought perhaps I could use that method instead of
> trying to expand an existing one.  However, it asks for the partition type,
> such as NTFS, FAT32, etc. None of the available options say anything about
> QNX.
> 
> Can anyone here provide any information on how I can expand or create a
> new 4th partition to make use of the larger HDD storage space?  Thank you in
> advance for your time.
> 

You can`t expand it. To delete and recreate it use QNX fdisk.

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Jeff W
02/12/2011 9:38 AM
post83126
Re: RE: Expanding QNX Primary Partition Help   
> You can`t expand it. To delete and recreate it use QNX fdisk.

First, thank you for your quick reply.  I downloaded and burned a boot CD of a QNX software suite.  It boots up to QNX 
installer 2009.  I do not want to install QNX on my computer.  All I need QNX for is to apparently go into fdisk and 
delete then create a new primary partition on a 40GB HDD that is connected via USB.

The ISO that I downloaded is QNX4CD.091105a.ISO.  I thought that I would be able to run fdisk from the boot CD but it 
just appears to be an installer for QNX.  I'm not sure what would happen if I attempt to install it on my Windows XP HDD
 and I certainly do not want it to wipe out my existing OS. I do have around 15GB of unallocated space on it. 

Is there some QNX Live CD that I can use to do this without having to install the entire OS to my computer?
Jeff W
07/28/2012 8:03 PM
post94488
Re: RE: Expanding QNX Primary Partition Help   
I know it has been a while but I was finally able to delete and create an expanded partition on my new HDD, thus using 
all available space.  My problem now is trying to get the files from the old HDD partition 4 onto the newly expanded 
partition on the new HDD.

My old HDD is failing and the normal method of going into QNX > Utilities > File Manager and copying and pasting the 
files is not working.  QNX doesn't even list the old HDD.  It still does show the partitions on it when I go into 
terminal mode and type "fdisk /dev/hd20".  I'm hoping that there's a way to copy and paste these files via the terminal 
mode.

Can anyone tell me the terminal command line I would need to type in order to copy all of the files from /dev/hd20 
partition 4 over to /dev/hd30 partition 4?  I would greatly appreciate it.  Thanks.
Hugh Brown
07/30/2012 9:14 AM
post94510
Re: Expanding QNX Primary Partition Help   
I presume that you are running QNX4? If so, you will first have to mount
the old disk (mount /dev/hd20t77 /disk2). I am also assuming that the
/dev/hd30 disk is mounted as /. If that is the case, you can then use 'cp'
to copy your files in a terminal window from /disk2 to the new disk. Do a
'use cp' to see the cp options.




On 12-07-28 8:03 PM, "Jeff W" <community-noreply@qnx.com> wrote:

>I know it has been a while but I was finally able to delete and create an
>expanded partition on my new HDD, thus using all available space.  My
>problem now is trying to get the files from the old HDD partition 4 onto
>the newly expanded partition on the new HDD.
>
>My old HDD is failing and the normal method of going into QNX > Utilities
>> File Manager and copying and pasting the files is not working.  QNX
>>doesn't even list the old HDD.  It still does show the partitions on it
>>when I go into terminal mode and type "fdisk /dev/hd20".  I'm hoping
>>that there's a way to copy and paste these files via the terminal mode.
>
>Can anyone tell me the terminal command line I would need to type in
>order to copy all of the files from /dev/hd20 partition 4 over to
>/dev/hd30 partition 4?  I would greatly appreciate it.  Thanks.
>
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