Hello, hopefully this isn't off-topic mail in this mailing-list. I would like to shrink a partition and ext3 file system on this partition starting from the beginning. In other words beginning of the file system and partition should change, but the end remains the same. I need to do this on a headless machine over SSH, but partition I'm operating with is unmounted.
As I understand, latest(3.1) parted does not support operations with file systems(move, mkpartfs, resize and other similar commands are missing and documentation confirms this). So I installed parted 2.4. However, looks like this doesn't support ext[234] extended attributes like ext_attr or resize_inode. Should I remove those features before operating with parted? In addition, does parted support shrinking partition and file system starting from the beginning? I know Gparted can do this(uses some sort of internal algorithm for "sliding" the file system), but I'm operating remotely on a headless system. Or is the dd(1) only option in this case? :) regards, martin
