04-29-2004
You can only do that 2 ways:
1. Use LVM. In this case you still have to partitions but you can add them to one volume group and create 1 logical volume from it.
2. Backup everything on partition 2. Blow away partition 1 and 2. Create a new partition using all the space. Restore the data from partition 2.
If you go into fdisk you will see there is no way to expand partition 2. You can create a new partition with the space from partition 1.
Just for added info. Lets say you have partition 1-3 and have extra space at the end of the disk. If you delete partition 1 you cannot create a larger partition using the space from partition 1 and the space at the end of the disk. The space must be sequential to create a partition in fdisk.
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PARTX(8) System Manager's Manual PARTX(8)
NAME
partx - telling the kernel about presence and numbering of on-disk partitions.
SYNOPSIS
partx [-a|-d|-l] [--type TYPE] [--nr M-N] [partition] disk
DESCRIPTION
Given a block device ( disk ) and a partition table type , try to parse the partition table, and list the contents. Optionally add or
remove partitions.
This is not an fdisk - adding and removing partitions is not a change of the disk, but just telling the kernel about presence and numbering
of on-disk partitions.
OPTIONS
-a add specified partitions or read disk and add all partitions
-d delete specified or all partitions
-l list partitions. Note that the all numbers are in 512-byte sectors.
--type TYPE
Specify the partition type -- dos, bsd, solaris, unixware or gpt.
--nr M-N
Specify the range of partitions (e.g --nr 2-4).
SEE ALSO
addpart(8), delpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8)
AVAILABILITY
The partx command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.
11 Jan 2007 PARTX(8)