resizing / partition

[Gertjan Vinkesteijn]

Lorenzo Prince wrote:
> Is it possible to resize the / partition using Parted?  I would like to
> repartition the hdd on my laptop running the latest FC1.  It currently has the
> following partitions:
> 
> 1 /boot
> 2 /
> 3 swap
> 
> These partitions take all the space on the hdd with / being the largest one.  I
> would like to resize the / partition so that I can add a new partitionfor
> testing  purposes.  I tried using Parted to do this but it gave me a warning
> that said it couldn't cleanly unmount the partition and that I should e2fsck.  I
> stopped at this point, as I was afraid of losing data.  Was this warning a
> problem?  Can I still resize this partition even though it is mounted?  If not,
> is there another way to resize the partition without having to use a live CD of
> some kind?
> 
> Thanks,
> PRINCE

There is a program called sfdisk written by my old colleague Andries 
Brouwer what can do it, but it is risky businness, you can easily loose 
partition data.

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