Howto resize partition?

[thenrysat]

I have fdisked and installed FC4 on my Dell 600m, everything seem be OK.
But because I made root partition too small, so now it was full, when I login a session OS warning that /tmp is full so that I can not login.
My question: Which tool in linux should used for resizing my partitions w/o lost my data? Are there any tool in linux that have similar function as Partition Magic?

[gavinw6662]

nothing will be similar to partition magic. Your best bet is too look at something like qtparted though.

[thenrysat]

I have booted off systemrescuecd and try to use qtparted, but it not help.
Before I partitioned my 80GB HDD by 4: 2.3GB for /boot(ext2), 1GB for swap, 6GB for / (ext3) and 60GB for my videos(ext3). I ran qtparted and I saw only partition 1 and 2 is resizable, partition 3 and 4 is not resizable(resize bar in menu is off). My purppose is increase size of partition1 but I can not achieve that with qtparted.
Any advise? Please.

[Firewing1]

you can't resize ext3... sorry....
Firewing1

[Zigzagcom]

Now I really learned something new. In other words, you have to be certain, that the various partitions can hold enough data. Then, when you run out of space, your option is to get another hard drive or partition, move the partition(s) to the new partition(s) and do a bit of a juggling act (short of removing some files that you can live without).

[MakeMyDay]

Apparently you *can* resize ext3
http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/resiz...ns-with-parted

OK, techically it's not resizing ext3. It's converting ext3 to ext2, resizing, and converting back to ext3.

[Firewing1]

That's cool. BTW, Why can't we resize ext3 when we can with ext2??
You'd think they'd include support for that.....
Firewing1

[Zigzagcom]

Must have something to do with the journal.

[tbl]

Here is the best ... sorry i don't remember where i found it on the internet :

Resizing an EXT3 partition

[Summary]
This will explain how to resize SHRINK your EXT3 partition.
I recieved an error that dealt with ' ped_file_system_open ', this will explain how to deal with that as well.
[Steps]
I'm going to use /dev/hda3 as an example, adjust it to the hard drive and partition you need.

1. When you get to a prompt, run the following:
# tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hda3
2. Now let's check the file system:
# e2fsck -f /dev/hda3
3. Run:
# resize2fs -d 27 -p /dev/hda3 12G

Options for size is: G, M, or K.
4. Now run e2fsck again
# e2fsck -f /dev/hda3
5. Let's add our journal back:
# tune2fs -j /dev/hda3

6. Run fdisk to destroy and create the partition with new size.
7. Reboot and you're good.

[tbl]

here is another way :
http://www.etherpunk.com/node/210

[thenrysat]

OK, I can resize ext3 now, it's done. Many thanks.