Resize ext3 Partition

Duncan Lithgow duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk
Sun Jan 23 10:42:24 UTC 2005


Shane Archer wrote:

> At 01:20 PM 1/22/2005, you wrote:
>
>> I like the advice i got which was to use a windows program to resize 
>> ntfs and fat partitions and a *nix app to resize ext partitions. That 
>> way chances of trounle are minimised.
>>
>> Duncan
>
>
> The drive is laid out something like this right now:
>
> 30GB to Windows XP
> 5GB to Fedora (/ , /boot, swap partitions)
>
> Supposing that I use something like Partition Magic to shrink the NTFS 
> partition to ~5GB, what would I then use, from within Fedora, to 
> non-destructively "grow" the root partition to consume the 
> now-available space?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shane

try "fdisk" "parted" or "qtparted". QTparted is what i used 'cause it 
has a graphic interface :)

Duncan




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