Non-destructively resize ext3 on PPC

[Cian Duffy]

Laptop. Can't fit another HDD.....

Cian


On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 08:00:05 -0800, Lewis Coleman <Coleman at tscnet.com> wrote:
> I would think the question should "Why should you resize a partition,
> when you can just buy another hard drive (cheap enough!!)?".  I would
> not want to risk losing some of my files by resizing a partition (I bet
> all the software says "Be sure to back up all your files!).
> 
> WAIT!!  I know why--Because we are all GEEKS!!  (I may not resize, but
> I do stuff just as dangerous!)
> 
>                   Cowardly Lewis
> 
> On Friday, January 7, 2005, at 07:29  PM, Felix Jodoin wrote:
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> > You can, with tools from Micromat, SubRosaSoft, and FWB (Although
> > Partition Toolkit sucked, I bought it and it only worked once). I have
> > no clue how to use parted.. I kind of wish fdisk had partition
> > resizing built in.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > - -Felix
> >
> > On 7-Jan-05, at 6:31 PM, Cian Duffy wrote:
> >
> >> Sorry, just realised the reason that /sbin/parted wasn't finding
> >> anything was I was on OSX. D'oh!
> >>
> >> Has anyone sucessfully used this tool? I presume you can't use it on
> >> the disk you're running off....
> >>
> >> Cian
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 00:26:39 +0000, Cian Duffy <myob87 at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>> On Intel, you can non-destructively resize ext3 partitions. I'd like
> >>> to experiment with (OS that shall rename unnamed) on my iBook, and
> >>> due
> >>> to using my OSX pretty heavily, I'd like to shave a few gigs from my
> >>> YDL partitions. Are there any tools for Linux that can be used to do
> >>> this, non-destructively?
> >>>
> >>> Cian
> >>>
> >>>
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