how to resize/grow an existing partition

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 06:37 -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote:
> Hi List;
> 
> My laptop running Fedora 7 had a 100G SATA drive. I went out yesterday and 
> purchased a 320G drive.
> 
> First I used dd to transfer my entire existing drive to the new drive, it 
> worked perfectly - I'm typing this on my system via the new drive now.

Maybe I'm missing something here, but I have to ask why did you do this?
It would presumably have been easier to a) format your new drive and
then b) copy all your files to it (using cp, tar, cpio, rsync or
whatever). I can't see how copying via dd makes any sense in this
context.

poc