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Re: Using Partition Magic with Debian



On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 04:07:14PM +0000, tsuess@blackhole.fuhq.net wrote:
> Has anyone used Partition Magic in order to resize partitions under Debian?
> The software claims to support resizing Linux EXT2 filesystems, etc, but will I 
> trash my system if I do so?  I used Norton Ghost to image my system from a 2.1 
> gig drive to an 8.4 gig drive and it's working great so far, but I have all 
> this slack space I would like to assign to various partitions, /usr etc.
> 
> So, has anyone done this sucessfully and/or have alternate methods that can
> be used to add slack space to existing partitions?
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreiciated,
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Todd

If you have linux running you could try parted, the GNU partition
editor.  I have no experience with it but I think is is stable.

-- 
Pat Mahoney  <pat7@gmx.net>


Dare to be naive.
                -- R. Buckminster Fuller



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