expand my ext3 partition

[Thomas Kaiser]

Try this: http://www.sysresccd.org/

Thomas

baza wrote:
> 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.
>>>
>>> Anyone know why?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>  
>>
> Just had a go at doing that, but I couldn't work out how to do it?? Is 
> there a partition tool on the live cd I missed?
> 
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> 
> Baza
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