parted and moving/shrinking partitions

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On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Brent Harding wrote:

> 	I have three partitions on my drive I installed redhat 7.1 on. 
> /dev/hdb1, /boot, about 20 megs
> /dev/hdb2, a swap partition I didn't want to install, but the system
> wouldn't let me go without it.
You want it. I promise.


> /dev/hdb3, my root partition.
> What do I do with parted to make /dev/hdb3 move to where /dev/hdb2 is,
> deleting /dev/hdb2 in the process? I might just turn my system in to lvm by
> splitting the root partition in half with the speakup enabled parted disks
> to copy one to another and make a volume group out of it, so if I have to
> add space in the future, it's easy, got a 30 gig drive with win98 on it, if
> I run out in linux, may be able to run parted on their too, not sure their
> though.
> 
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