Extend Linux Partition

[Frank Kumro]

I have

Boot:
 /dev/hda3 on /boot type ext3 (rw)

Root: (I want to extend this)
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw)

Swap:
(not shown)

and then the ntfs partition

All shown below

Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        5099    40957686    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2            5100        8923    30716280    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda3            8924        8936      104422+  83  Linux
/dev/hda4            8937       19457    84509932+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5            8937       19457    84509901   8e  Linux LVM

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 20:17:15 -0800 (PST), Dave Andruczyk
<djandruczyk at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> --- Frank Kumro <fkumro at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Well I finally need the extra room on my HD that winblows is sitting
> > on (havent booted it in .. err 6 months) but I have one problem. I do
> > not have partition magic and I dont know of any other way to resize my
> > linux partition without data loss. Any ideas??
> 
> What FS is the current linux partition formatted as? (mount will tell you) And
> to make things absolutely clear how many partitions are on the drive and how
> are they laid out "fdisk -l /dev/hda" will show you assuming the drive in
> question is hda.
> 
> =====
> Dave J. Andruczyk
> 
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-- 
Frank
Shenanigans!!