[Sheflug] non-destructive resizing of partitions

[Bill Best <bill [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Is there a way of non-destructively changing the size of partitions at all?

I've heard that this can be done if the two partitions are adjacent e.g. 
the boundary between hda1 and hda2 can be moved but not hda1 & hda3.

I need to do move the boundary between /dev/sda2 and /dev/sda3?  Here's 
the scenario:

[bill@archive bill]$ df -H
Filesystem             Size   Used  Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3              11GB  9.7GB  1.1GB  90% /
/dev/sda1             103MB   16MB   82MB  16% /boot
none                  792MB      0  792MB   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda2             5.2GB  152MB  4.7GB   4% /var

Is it easy to move the boundary between sda2 and sda3 to give me a few 
more GB?  The /var partition hasn't grown appreciably in the last 6 
months or so - I reckon I could shave at least 2GB off it.

Does SCSI make any difference to the process?

Hope someone can help.

Many thanks

Bill







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