Calvin Walton wrote:
> This seems to be missing from the howto there, so here goes.
> Resizing the filesystem only changes the filesystem size, it doesn't
> change the partition size. The partition just has a spot at the end
> that isn't being used by the filesystem.
>
> What you need to do is delete the partition, then make a new
> partition, starting at the exact same block and with the same size as
> you just resized the filesystem to (I would make it a touch bigger to
> avoid problems).
>
> This will free up space behind that partition in the partition table
> for you to add your windows partition.
I just wanted to back up what Calvin said. Resizing a parition is basically
3 steps:
1. Resize the filesystem (ext2resize)
2. Resize the partition (delete, and put back in a smaller one that starts
at the same block, and the last block just a tad bigger than the filesystem
(fdisk)
3. Resize the filesystem again (ext2resize) to grow into the full partition.
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