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  From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  To  : daved@uq.net.au, Evan Bourlotos <evan@cs.adelaide.edu.au>
  Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 23:31:37 +0900

Re: More space required

At 08:59 AM 6/26/00 +0930, David A. de Groot wrote:
>On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Evan Bourlotos wrote:
>
>> Hi All
>> I was wondering if there is an easy way to enlarge a parition?
>> my home directory has run out of space and it is 2gb but i need it to be
>> larger. The drive itself is a 13 gb drive and there is ample room on
>> other partitions as well.
>> 
>> All advice gratefully received
> 
>Partition Magic is what you'd be after.

This is not true, IMHO.

>Version 4 onwards does ext2 resizing.

The ext2 resize tool that PM uses was written by Ted T'so and it is now
freely available. Can't tell you where :-) but a search on ext2 resize
should show you.

>Takes a while though.... 

Can't comment, but I imagine so.

>Dave
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Regards
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