> On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 02:39:15PM +0000, Nigel Metheringham wrote: > > Following this you could use gnu parted to move and resize your > partitions. You may need to use tune2fs to remove the journal before > doing this and then put it back on again afterwards (not used parted for > a while so not sure how it handles journals now - > especially now they do not appear in the main fs). > > From: Stephen C. Tweedie [mailto:sct@redhat.com] > It should be OK, I think --- the journal is just another inode, and > there's nothing special about the way the kernel finds the data. I > don't think that parted looks at the directory structure at all so the > fact that it's a hidden inode shouldn't matter; but, I haven't tested > it. Using parted to resize an unmounted ext3 filesystem worked without using tune2fs. Cheers, -Mike Slifcak