Why I hate "info"

[Timothy Murphy]

Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:

>> I know it will take a fraction of the time
>> to use Partition Magic (of which I have a legal copy).
>> But I'd prefer to use a Linux solution.
> 
> Go to http://gparted.sourceforge.net and download the iso image with
> gparted. Burn it to a cd, boot from it and shrink your partition in
> graphic mode. Very straightforward, no need for manuals.

Thanks - I've made a note of that for future purposes.
In this case, I copied the partition elsewhere,
deleted it with fdisk and created a new partition of the required size.
Long-winded, but simple to do.

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