[Samba] Need util to resize parition (Off Topic)

[Chris Garringer]

The latest version of Partition Magic will let you do that.  Move space
between partions on my laptop. The partitions changed were NTFS (w2k)
and Linux.  They all resized fine. 

On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 15:35, Ash Ridley wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Sorry to post OT but I'm a bit stuck and I thought someone may know the
> answer.
> 
> Originally I installed Red Hat 5.2 with 2 paritions, boot and root. I
> upgraded to Red Hat 6 (kept the original filesystem) without a problem
> some time ago, but now I want to upgrade to 7.2. When trying to install
> the upgrade it tells me that the boot parition isnt big enough (by about
> 90k!) so I thought "Easy I'll use partition magic for DOS from a boot
> floppy and move some space from root to boot" (theres plenty spare).
> Only problem is my partition magic (v4) wont allow me to modify the
> linux partions (don't know if it's a limitation with the DOS version or
> just version 4).
> 
> So my question is, can I move space between the 2 partitions and what
> util will let me do it (preferably free but if I have to buy something
> I'd rather do that than reinstall). Maybe I should mention that the 2
> Linux paritions are the only paritions on the system.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ash
> 
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