Re: resizing ext2 partitions
>
> hi
>
> apart from Partition Magic 4, are there any programs to resize
> ext2fs partitions? i recently did away with windows on my drive,
> and i dont want to backup everything/reinstall to make the whole
> drive ext2...
>
Some time ago I heard that the author of the ext2 file system wrote a
program to do this. He apparently sold it to partition magic, under
the condition that it will be released under GPL after something like a
year. I always thought a program like partion magic would have been
worth buying, if it costed someting like $20 and didn't have the
ridiculous license conditions preventing you to use it on more than one
PC legally. For now I'd advise you to make a second ext2 partition,
and move part of your system there. Likely things to move are /home,
/usr, /usr/local, /usr/lib, /something/big/that/needs/to/grow. Then
you might want to check out the mailing list archives to find one of
the numerous discussions on the subject of moving the contents of a
directory keeping all permissions right.
HTH,
Eric
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