Resizing a partition

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

Lucas Chan wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I recently signed up with a super-cheap dedicated server company to run one
>of my personal sites.  The box was pre-installed with FC2.
>
>Some of the partitions they set up on it are ridiculously small.  I
>contacted them saying:
>
>"I'm quickly running out of space on a couple of partitions and need them to
>be resized. I understand this needs to be performed at the console with a
>boot disk so I'm submitting a ticket to you guys."
>
>They responded saying:
>
>"We cannot resize the partitions without reformatting/reimaging the drive."
>
>Am I missing something obvious?  I thought resizing partitions was quite an
>easy thing to do with parted?  Are there some oddities with resizing
>partitions in Fedora that I'm not aware of, or am I just getting the quality
>technical support you'd expect from an el-cheapo hosting company?
>
>The RHEL parted docs I found indicate to me that this is a simple process:
>
>http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s
>1-parted-resize-part.html
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Regards,
> 
>Lucas Chan
>
>
>  
>
Well, you'd have to do it from a rescue console, or with a system rescue 
CD... Basically due to fdisk and mounted filesystems... So unless you 
have access to the machine physically, I don't know how could you do that.