resize

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On 4/14/05, Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  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?
> 

You might check http://www.sysresccd.org/

> 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.
> 
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