expand my ext3 partition

[baza]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:

>On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 07:33:01PM +0000, baza wrote:
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>>I've got 33gb free on my hard drive. I want to expand hda2 which is a 
>>ext3 linux partition, it's the main one other than swap. I've been 
>>playing with Qtparted but it won't let me grow hda2 to make use of the 
>>free space.
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>>Anyone know why?
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>You can't expand an ext3 partition while it is actively in use.  The
>simplest way to do it would be to boot from the live CD and resize from
>there.
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I've got this sorted now, did it from Windows and now my ext3 partition 
is a nice 65 gb,
and not one file lost. Which was nice.


Baza