Re: [SLUG] shrinking a partition

[DaZZa <dazza@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Steven O'Reilly wrote:

> I currently have a dual boot RedHat 6.2 and Win95 laptop.  I wish to try
> Debian on this machine to see if it works with internal modem etc.  The
> RH partition is the largest and has heaps of space, i wish to shrink
> this but not lose any data.
>
> I remember shrinking the original partition when instaling GNU/linux,
> but what I read about fdisk and cfdisk seem to only allow deleting but
> not resizing.
>
> Is what I want to do possible and where do I look to find out how?

Two words.

Partition Magic.

It'll do everything you want.

DaZZa