You can find "parted" on the Web, which supposedly will resize ext2 and ext3 partitions, with some limits. Never tried it myself. Might be easier to backup and repartition, depending... SJR Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi Muhammad > > Thanks for your advice. > > Can I resize each partition and add new partition as well, without > repartition the whole drive and restore from backup. Which process > will be easier > > Thanks in advance. > > Stephen > > > At 02:45 AM 10/14/2002 -0400, you wrote: > >> Stephen Liu wrote:> >> >> >Kindly advise >> >1) How to display the existing partition in full detail >> >2) What command shall issue to "defragment" the hard disc on Linux >> >3) What shall be the safe and easy way to re-partition a hard disc >> >> er.. can't really defragment a hard disk in Linux, it isn't as messy as >> other operating systems;) so there is no real need. The file structure >> will probably have spanned the whole disk tho, so you're better off just >> backing up, repartition with fdisk (man fdisk), and restore from >> backup... >> >> Good luck... >
