Re: [edlug] Resizing ext3 partitions?

["Rory McCune" <rorym@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

Hi,

According to this link http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html
parted should work ok for ext3...

apart from partiton creation but then you can always do that through
fdisk/mkfs


cheers

Rory
>
> I want to re-partition my mp3 disk (currently 1 disk, 1 partition: 56G
> total, 11G used :-)
>
> As the largest available space is 3.4G, I don't think I'll be able to
> gzip my mp3's off the hard disk.
>
> parted only does ext2 partitions, so that's not available to me.
>
> Any other suggestions?
>
> (after that, it's going to have to be a very nice word with a sys-admin,
> and "borrow" 11G of space on a server for a day or so - which is a
> favour I'd rather keep for another day ;-)
>
> Oh, and if I can all this without having to drop out of multi-user mode,
> so much the better ;-)
>
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