have u tried 'parted'?
it comes with a .bin file in the tarball that u can dd onto a floppy and boot 
your pc with...u can the resize your partitions easily..

..dunno if it supports reiser yet but deffo ex2+3


On Tuesday 12 November 2002 6:16 pm, David Guntner wrote:
> I need to unmount my /var filesystem so that I can use diskdrake to resize
> it.  I've gone to init level 1 (single user mode), which kills all
> processes that should be using it (like syslog), but even then, any attempt
> to unmount /var gets a "it's busy" message.  I don't know *what* it could
> be busy with, since the various daemons which log stuff there are shut
> down.
>
> /var is the last filesystem on my disk, and I've got some empty space at
> the end of that disk.  I want to expand the size of /var to fill that
> space.  Starting point on the disk will be the same - I don't want to move
> it, just resize it to make it a bit bigger.  To the best of my knowledge,
> you have to unmount a filesystem before you can resize it.  So for the
> moment, I'm stuck.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this?
>
>                     --Dave


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