andy at theasis.com wrote: >>parted: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html >>gpart: http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/ >>and dd/cat/fdisk. >> >>With those three you have the functionality of every partitioning >>utility in existance. >> > >...until you read the fine print. >While those will do the trick most of the time, and the the utilities in >the last 2 lines will address the drivecopy issue, parted is not fully >functional because of some limitations. In particular, > 1. For ext2: the start of the partition must stay fixed. > >Partition Magic doesn't have this limitation. > In which case you simply move the partition first, then resize. Duh. Slower but it works.