> So the only way I can think to get this done is to shrink the
> partition and make a new partition at the end of the drive,
> move data to that, delete the old partition and recreate it
> including the 25GB, move data back and _hope_ I can enlarge
> the partition into the free space at the end of the drive.
No reason why that shouldn't work but it's a shame that you have to go
to so much trouble. The only thing I can think of is did you cleanly
unmount the filesystem before using tune2fs and parted on it and are you
using the latest available version of parted? There are quite a few
google hits on this topic but reading back through the thread you appear
to have tried all of them. Do you have a copy of Partition Magic you can
try for completeness? Unless you could take that 41Gbs on hdc2, clean up
some stuff and compress the rest and squeeze it into the brand new 25Gb
partition that you have room to create. Then copy the data there, and
the overspill to hdc1, then kill hdc2 and expand the new 25Gb partition
to the end of the drive. You know you can get a 250Gb drive for about
160 euro to back the whole lot up and start again, or perhaps take a
loan of one.
Regards,
Stephen
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