I think parted may do what you want. I saw a release e-mail about this
for redhat. It may be on their site under contrib.
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> > Okay I have seen a zillion ways to do this over
> > the last couple of years and read hundreds of lines
> > of mans, howto's, and email's, HOWEVER;
> >
> > I will ask this list for pointers again !
> >
> > My / 3 gig partition is full. I have created another
> > ext2 fs of 2 gigs on the same HD. How do I merge it into
> > The present / so that after reboot (I guess that would be
> > necessary?) The new / partition would contain 5 gigs?
> >
> My suggstion would be to boot to a boot floppy and use one
> of the disk repartitioning tools such as Partition Magic
> from PowerQuest or perhaps there's a linux-based
> non-destructive repartitioner?
> John
>
