> > hi > > apart from Partition Magic 4, are there any programs to resize > ext2fs partitions? i recently did away with windows on my drive, > and i dont want to backup everything/reinstall to make the whole > drive ext2... >
Some time ago I heard that the author of the ext2 file system wrote a program to do this. He apparently sold it to partition magic, under the condition that it will be released under GPL after something like a year. I always thought a program like partion magic would have been worth buying, if it costed someting like $20 and didn't have the ridiculous license conditions preventing you to use it on more than one PC legally. For now I'd advise you to make a second ext2 partition, and move part of your system there. Likely things to move are /home, /usr, /usr/local, /usr/lib, /something/big/that/needs/to/grow. Then you might want to check out the mailing list archives to find one of the numerous discussions on the subject of moving the contents of a directory keeping all permissions right. HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054
