new partition

[Jorge Almeida]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Bruce Marshall wrote:

> 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.
Thanks, I think I'll try it. The partition is not mounted.

Jorge