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oniq
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Hopefully this is the right forum...
I'm running a bit low on space (less than 2gigs is low for me), but I have another partition that has Windows on it, if I were to merge the two with Partition Magic (don't know if it will let me, but if it does...) will I still be able to use the one partition without reformatting? Probably would have to run grub to fix the partition table but would it work otherwise?
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sisyphus
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It's been a long time since I've used Partition Magic so I'm not sure how capable it is. I suspect it would work fine though.
What about Parted?
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html
This'll work provided that the start of the parition doesn't move (i.e. your existing ext3 partition must be at the start of the disk).
DISCLAIMER: Muck with your partition table at your peril. I've not heard of parted failing but that doesn't mean it won't for you - In other words, I'm not responsible if it goes wrong and you lose data 
Good Luck
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Looks like I'm out of luck, start of my partition is AFTER the windows partition, oh well I guess it gives me reason to upgrade to 1.4 rc1. Thanks for your reply!
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How big is your /home? If it's big then you could try this. It'll also work for other directories (e.g. /usr) but it's a bit more difficult to do (though possible).
You could bin the Windows partition and recreate a new part in it's place. Format it ReiserFS or whatever.
Once you got that, mount it somewhere handy (/mnt/tmp or wherever) and:
Once this is done, check that your files are OK and then rm -rf /home/* (as root, at a console). Add the new partition to fstab to mount it at /home then just run:
Bob's yer uncle.
DISCLAIMER: Same as before but backup all your data before you do this. In fact, back up anyhow - you'll sleep better
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Thanks, good idea I'll keep it in mind. I really think I'm going to jump to 1.4rc1 though so a format would be best. I can't believe how accustomed I have become to my Gentoo Linux desktop though, I can do anything and everything I would do in Windows.
Thanks for the replies!
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