Non-destructively resize ext3 on PPC

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

Looks interesting... What are your experiences with this tool?

-Joseph

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On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 12:05, b1smooth at yahoo.com wrote:
> Use qtparted...gui based and very simple to use. 
> 
> 
> http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/screenshots.en.html
> 
> --- "Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D."
> <joseph_sacco at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > 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
> > ==============================================
> > 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
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> --
> > > > >>> ---------------------------
> > > > >>> "We're busy running out of time"
> > > > >>> Bernard Sumner, 1993
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
> > > > >> --
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