Resizing a partition

[Larry Hartman]

On Wednesday 04 June 2008 01:27:20 pm Stefano Diem wrote:
> That is very odd, i am reisizing an ext3 partition as we speak with
> qparted, and it works as it
> should. Perhaps the reason why some of those programs couldnt resize the
> partition is because
> you cannot shrink a mounted partition ( so if hd1 is your root mounted
> partition, you won't
> be able to paritition it within kubuntu  ). If this is the case, i would
> recommend using gparted live cd
> (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php).

I have used gparted live cd several times and really like it.  

I dont mess with partitioning anymore while the system is booted....and if I 
need to repartition during a new install, I use gparted to do that work for 
me rather than partitioner on the kubuntu live cd.

Larry