<quote who="Chris Deigan">

> Tiwari, Rajnish wrote:
> >     I have redhat 9.0 on a laptop and need to place
> >     more installations on separate partitions.
> >     The current install has one big partition and
> >     boots from MBR (from memory). 
> >
> >     Is it possible to resize a ext2 partition ?
> >     What tools are available on Redhat 9.0 that may
> >     allow me to do this ? The intention is to leave
> >     intact the current installation.
> 
> Partition Magic from Powerquest (commercial product) can do this for
> ext2, maybe ext3 in the newer version (check the box)  --
> Don't know any Opensource/free apps that can do this though.

GNU Parted (parted packing in Debian).

http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/

I've used it once to resize, and several times to detect the positions of
partitions when the partition table has been accidentally deleted.

J.
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