[ILUG] modifying partitions

[Paul Kelly]

"C. Hennessy" wrote:
> > >  what i want to do is chop 400-64 = 336MB off /dev/hdb7...
> I think that Gnu Parted can do resizing, but I have never used it.
> Check out http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/ or
> http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/09/19/937790960.html
> 
> Anyone used it ?

I've used it, but only on a FAT32 partition. It worked flawlessly and
I'd use it again. Of course a full backup is in order before taking such
a drastic step.

GNU parted can also move partitions around on the disk. It's very
flexible but the user interface is not the most friendly - fdisk style.

Paul.