Non-destructively resize ext3 on PPC

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

Here's a thought:
* plug in an external drive [USB, firewire]
* use the external drive as a backup
* do whatever you wish to the internal drive

-Joseph
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On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 11:08, Cian Duffy wrote:
> 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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> > >>>
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