On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:10:54 -0800, Keith Keller wrote:
> On 2005-02-16, Shannon Lloyd <sjlloydNO@SPAMlikwid.com> wrote:
>> I'd like to shrink my existing (ext3) root partition in order to create
>> a couple of new partitions on the disk. I know how to do this using
>> parted (1.6.21), but obviously this cannot be done unless I first
>> unmount the partition in question, meaning that I can't do it from
>> within Slack.
>
> Really, the entire disk should not be in use, since parted will likely
> need to rewrite the partition table.
>
>> So my
>> question is this: is there a live/rescue cd distro which is up-to-date
>> enough to have a version of parted which can do what I want, or failing
>> that, is there some other way for me to achieve this without blowing
>> away my existing root partition?
>
> Where did you look?
>
> FWIW, CRUX does come with parted, but I don't know which version. You
> could also boot from your Slackware CD, copy a statically-compiled
> parted to your in-memory root filesystem, and run it from there.
> (That's actually similar to what I did to resize my HFS+ partition on my
> iBook.)
>
> --keith
>

Funny thought, on my system, the previous topic to this was "Have you
considered a penis extension" (or something similiar), this topic here
is "resizing ext3 root partition"

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