From: John P. Looney (john at domain antefacto.com)
Date: Tue 05 Jun 2001 - 18:14:54 IST
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 03:23:40PM +0100, Cormac McClean mentioned:
> > begin Cormac McClean quotation:
> > > There is a very handy utility called GNU Parted which will
> > > allow you to repartition ext2 partitions non-destructively.
> >
> > Links to all of these utilities -- and the reasons why you should eschew
> > them all -- are in http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/#partition .
>
> Can you be specific? There's a lot of stuff on that page, and
> nothing that seems to point to "eschewing" a useful utility
> like gparted.
To save you time; partition resizers don't always work, and sometimes you
are left with a wiped disk. So, if you don't mind the one in fifty chance
that you lose all your data, fire away.
Rick just took 20k to say that, that's all.
Kate
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