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Hello!

My Linux-partition is to small. Does anybody know how I can enlarge it?
Is there a tool like "partition magic" under DOS? Or does anybody know
how I can do this without lots of copying or even reinstall the system?

        Tanks,
        Harald

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 >My Linux-partition is to small. Does anybody know how I can enlarge it?
 >Is there a tool like "partition magic" under DOS? Or does anybody know
 >how I can do this without lots of copying or even reinstall the system?
 >
You can't at present enlarge an ext2 file system.  But if you can create
a new partition, you can mount that as, say /new or /usr/new,
and use it.  Another possibility is to create a big new partition
(say, by deleting Win95 :+), and moving over everything using tar.
This has to be done with some care, with attention paid to permissions
and symbolic links.  It involves a lot of copying, but not one file
at a time.

Bob T.