Re: Resizing file partitions

[Osamu Aoki <debian@aokiconsulting.com>]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 04:58:30PM -0800, Kapil Khosla wrote:
> Hi ,
> I have exceeded my Linus Partition space and and want to 
:-)                  Linux for OS. / Linus is for the name of its creator.
> increase the partition size now.
> I have 2 windows partitions on /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2.
> Is there any way  of giving that space to Linux without 
> formatting my disk,

DOS program in FIPS20.ZIP may be your friend.  I remember it in CDROM.

# wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/tools/fips20.zip 

Also check out:
parted - The GNU Parted disk partition resizing program
parted-doc - The GNU Parted disk partition resizing program documentation

parted:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1.4.23-1
  Version Table:
     1.4.23-1 0
        800 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
     1.4.21-1 0
        700 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Packages
     1.0.13-1 0
        500 http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Packages

Good luck :)
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