help on resizing partitions

[Steve]

On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:30:27 -0000, user1 <bqz69 at telia.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:44:26 +0100, xPol wrote:
>
>> I would like to resize three consecutive partitions, _without losing
>> data_, by shrinking the one in the middle and enlarging the remaining
>> ones.
>
> I do not think there is a tutorual.
>
> Here is a quick one, examples only.
>
> Please note that the order of partitions always should be, beginning at 1
> and ending at 18:
> 1 primary - ext3
> 2 primary - ext3
> 3 primary - ext3
> 4 extended
> 5....18 logical - ext3
>
> Otherwise the partition table cannot cope
>
The order of partitions on the drive doesn't matter I have one set up as  
follows:
sdb2	fat32
sdb3	reiserfs	
sdb1	extended
sdb6	ext3
sdb7	ext3
sdb5	swap




-- 
Steve