new partition

[Bruce Marshall]

On Thursday 12 July 2007, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> I have an unused logical partition /dev/hda9, which is the last
> partition in the (IDE) disk. No unpartitioned space. Now I need to use
> another partition, but hda9 is too big. So, I would delete /dev/hda9 and
> then make a smaller hda9 with fdisk. The problem is that this disk is
> the system disk and I'm on ssh, so unmouting everything is not an
> option. So, is it safe to do it, given that the numbering of the
> partitions in use would not need to change?

Should not be a problem if  no one is using partition hda9  and you can 
unmount it.