[H-GEN] Resizing partitions

[Robert Brockway]

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On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, David Jericho wrote:

> ext3 copes well enough with resizing downwards, and upwards. It's more
> the issue of where the start of the filesystem actually resides on the
> filesystem that has now grown (down presummably).
>
> I'd suggest that depending on how customised the machine is, it'd be
> easier to copy the data you want to keep elsewhere and reinstall.

Why not backup _all_ the data[1], and then boot off CD, repartition &
bring all the data back.  There are various places to store the data -
such as shuffling data around repartitioning the drive bit-by-bit, backing
up to another system & bringing the data back via FTP, etc.

When I setup decent sized drives I like to leave a bit of space to the
side as if possible.  Very useful for repartitioning, etc.

[1] Using dump,tar,cpio or a printer & a scanner.  Yeah I was kidding with
that last one.

Cheers,
	-Rob

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