resize

[Daniel Robitaille]

>  What if the partition you want to resize is the root filesystem? gparted
> won't work on a mounted FS...
>  
>  What I did was to reboot to the install CD and fired up a shell. The parted
> and ntfsresize were availalbe on the commandline.
>  
>  Also, the partition I want to grow is reiserfs, I want to expand it beyond
> its end (easy with reiser, just fdisk the partition using the same start
> block and reiserfs_resize) as well as extending it before its first block
> (i.e., "to the left"). parted (at least in hoary) doesn't seem to like
> reiserfs. 
>  
>  Any options? Is there a liveCD out there that can handle this task?

in the past I have used qtparted on Knoppix to resize partitions (but
never reiserfs...).  Maybe its worth looking into to see if the
reiserfs commands is available in it.