best program to resize partition?

[whiskers]

what is the best program i can use to resize a reiserfs partition without losing any data

thanks

[Djento]

i don't remind totally the command but type:
resize

and use tab to complete de commande.
The command looks like resize_reiserfs.


cheers


ps: i'm not on a linux box at the moment.

[whiskers]

when i type

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resize_reiserfs -s 8G /dev/sda7

i get

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Can't shrink filesystem on-line

what does this mean?
thanks

also... does partition magic resize reiserfs partitons?

[dreamer]

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

[whiskers]

at the

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./configure

stage of installing gparted, i get something about XML::Parser in perl needed for initool or something like that. i emerged perl, but it says the same thing..

[whiskers]

actually scratch previous post...

i use a slax live cd to resize_reiserfs, but the partiton is still the same size.
how can i shrink the partition (without using gparted)

[dreamer]

resizing a partition involves resizing two things.
First you need to resize the filesystem and then the volume (the actual partition). In case of growing a partition use the reverse order

usually you use a filesystem specific tool to do the resize (like resize_reiserfs) and fdisk/cfdisk/parted to resize the partition. You should be very carefull not to move the startpoint of the partition, because if you do, the data on the reiserfs partition is no longer accessible.

My advice is to grab a livecd with gparted on it and use that to resize your partition (and possible fix the damage you might already have inflicted on this partition)

I've heard good rumours about this livecd.

good luck