Yes, boot off of a floppy or cd-rom ramdisk, and then you can do whatever you like with /dev/hdb. Greg On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 06:37:43PM -0500, jack mendez wrote: > i need to delete a partition which is no longer being used on /dev/hdb > however my home is /dev/hdb1 > i tried to umount /dev/hdb1 so that i can fdisk /dev/hdb delete /dev/hdb2 > and use ext2resize to increase /dev/hdb1 it says home device is busy i saw > the l switch said it was dangerous, any recommendations?? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org