How To Resize ext3 Partitions Without Losing Data

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Author: Falko Timme <ft [at] falkotimme [dot] com> 
Last edited 12/31/2006

This article is about resizing ext3 partitions without losing data. It shows how to shrink and enlarge existing ext3 partitions and how to merge two ext3 partitions. This can be quite useful if you do not use LVM and you realize that your existing partitioning does not meet your actual needs anymore.

There are many ways of achieving this goal but this is the way I take. I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

 

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