<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> H What *I* would do, is, I'd create a partiton of type 8E (Linux LVM) and make that a physical volume (PV). I'd then create a Volume Group out of this PV and create Logical Volumes (LV) on this VG. I'd then migrate</blockquote><div> ^^^^^ How you migrate date from /dev/hda4 to LVs? </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">the data from /dev/hda4 to the LVs and finally make hda4 also a pv and add it to the VG, so that the space of hda3 is available to the VG. Benefit: Resizing lv's ("partitions") and thus also filesystems (at least reiserfs and xfs) will become a no-brainer: lvresize -L+123m /dev/Volume00/USR && resize_reiserfs /dev/Volume00/USR See the LVM Howto at <a href="http://tldp.org">tldp.org</a>: <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO">http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO</a> Alternatively, if you want to stick with old-style, unflexible partitioning, use a tool like gparted to resize your partition. But, as I said, I'd take the oppurtunity to switch to LVM. Oh, one important point to note: If you wish to access some of the data from another operting system (*BSD, Solaris, OS/2, Windows), then create at least one "exchange filesystem" on an old-style partition. </blockquote></div> -- Best Regards zhihang wang