resize partition

[Johan Ramm-Ericson]

On Wed, November 8, 2006 Andy wrote:

>
> On 08/11/06, Rares Vernica <rvernica at gmail.com> wrote:
>> gparted just give me an error I did not know what to do with it.
>
> Did you make sure the partition you where resizing was not mounted at
the
> time?
> I don't think you can resize a partition if its mounted (if you can its
probably a bad idea to).
>
> - Andy

You can resize a partition online if it is a logical volume ("man lvm"  or
"sudo apt-get install lvm2 ; man lvm").

Regards,
Johan