partition magic tool

[Ronnie Gauthier]

On Sat, 05 May 2007 11:53:21 -0700
Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:

> Vu Pham wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 07:10 -0700, Ken Moffat wrote:
> >   
> >> Ronnie Gauthier wrote:
> >>     
> >
> >   
> >> gparted in included on many recent live cd's as well.
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > Ken, Ronnie, Tim, thanks for your reply. Yes, I found gparted in the
> > Ubuntu CD. After booting from that CD, I can run gparted and it shows me
> > the device/parttitions and allows me to select the partition to resize.
> >
> > The problem is when I select "apply" it started for some 10 seconds then
> > reported that the operation failed and told me to check the error
> > detail. But in the Error Detail, there is nothing but the message
> > "Resize the partition /dev/sda2 to .... Mb".
> >
> 
> Be sure the partitions you are working on are not mounted.

Thats why I prefer a rescue disk. Just boot to it and do what you need.

Ronnie