Partition Resizing

[ggrot]

This isn't particularly a linux question, but I suspect linux people have run across similar things alot:

I have a laptop with linux installed taking up the entire drive with 1 big partition(actually 2, but one is /boot). I want to install a second OS (another flavor of linux) in a different partition, but there is no more room on the drive for another partition. My constraints are: dont want to lose the current partition and reinstall, no floppy(do have cd drive), no windows on the laptop, no cd burner on windows machine.

I thought about partition magic, but the floppy means I wont be able to use the old style boot from floppy, and I think the new partition magic tries to work only from windows. Does anyone know if partition magic now allows to make cd images (iso) which I could burn from linux after transferring over the network? Are there any other tools that could perhaps do the same thing as easily?

[outrun]

Im really lost as to what you are asking you say you want to resize but you have no more space, if you want to resize copy remove partitions try "parted", in the shell type man parted for more information.

regards,
Mark

[bakedjake]

Yeah, GNU's parted is what you want if you're using ext2/3 or ReiserFS.

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