On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:07, Rob Wood wrote: > Greetings, > Can cfdisk be used to re-size partitions containing data? All the *fdisk family of programs _only_ change the entry in the partition table, and don't even attempt to preserve the data. So the answer is NO!!!
You do not mention the kind of filesystem in the partition. There are some partition size-changing tools which work well some of the time, but not always, and never without the risk of losing the lot because the power-supply failed. So, What filesystem is it? -- C. S.
