Robert, > Theoretically, you could fdisk to delete the old partition and then > create a new partition that starts where the old one did and continues > to "further" cylinders. Then you could use either "resize2fs" or > "ext2online" to resize the filesystem to match. This, of course, only > works if you are growing, not shrinking. Shrinking needs to be done in > reverse. First, run resize2fs to shrink the filesystem then use fdisk > to delete/recreate the partition as long as it starts at the original > location. Of course, this is all questionable behavior these days. > There is also the problem of the natural contiguous nature of > filesystems and the need to move partitions when doing all this. The > real recommendation would be backup and recreate the filesystems > inserting LVM into the middle to virtualize the diskspace and provide > the convenience of resizability.... Thanks for your comments. Very helpful. []'s Marcelo
