Re: resize partitions using parted

[Sven Hartrumpf <Sven.Hartrumpf@FernUni-Hagen.de>]

>> Anybody ever try to resize partitions using parted? Did it work ok?

>Used it. Loved it. Broke it :-}. Read the docs and only use it as it 
>says. Heed the warnings about meddling with the root partition.

Did you run into this problem when you ran parted from a floppy disk
after booting from a rescue disk?

Or did you mean by "only use it as it says"
that you missed exactly this passage in parted.texi (section 1.6)
and ran parted from the hard disk itself.

Greetings