To resize your root partition with parted, there is a boot disk available at the parted site here:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/gnu/parted/ You need a boot disk for this since the partition being resized can't be mounted. Tom "V.Suresh" wrote: > > I want to shorten my 1 Gig root partition. To around 300-400 MB. > Without losing data. I mean, just want to resize the partition. > What software should I use? > > > > -V.Suresh. Sureshv<at>users<dot>sourceforge<dot>net > Http://www16.brinkster.com/vsuresh