[NTLUG:Discuss] Resizing Linux partitions

[Kevin E. Ivey]

Leroy Tennison wrote:
> Decided to try this since I needed a CentOS installation and would have 
> enough room on a hard drive if I shrunk a couple of existing 
> installations.  Read about 'move' and 'resize' in parted but ran into 
> issues.
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> No big deal since is was a test partition anyway, just some time 
> wasted.  However, I am now very curious as to how you are supposed to go 
> about resizing both ext3 and reiserfs partitions.  Anyone have good 
> success with this using any non-commercial program?

I have always had success with qtparted or parted.  I use Knoppix or 
Puppy Linux and resize and create Reiserfs partitions routinely...

good hunting!