Program to Merge two partitions???

[Mike McMullin]

On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 21:18 -0400, Andrew Syrewicze wrote:
> Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > On Saturday 14 July 2007, Andrew Syrewicze wrote:
> >   
> >> Hello list.
> >>
> >> I just need a good program to merge two ext3 partitions into one
> >> partition. I've been looking at gparted, but it doesn't appear to
> >> support this feature....  any suggestions???
> >>     
> >
> > Don't you just need to copy the files from one partition to the other???
> >
> > I think you are making it too complicated.
> >
> >   
> No, this is exactly what is going on.
> 
> I've got a 320GB drive. it's currently split into 2 partitions. One is 
> 200GB and the other is 120GB.
> My home drive is currently mounted on the 200 GB partition. and the 
> 120GB partition is raw. It doesn't have anything on it.
> 
> I would like to add the 120GB partition to my Home drive without 
> damaging my data.
> 
> I would preferably like to use a free program within the repositories. 
> I.E. not partition magic, though it would do the job.
> 
> anybody know of anything???

  Does GParted allow the growing of file systems?  If so you could boot
the live/CD and with the /home not mounted delete the second partition
and then have GParted grow the /home.