Hello

Does someone know a way to resize partition without backing it up?

Thanks

in linux fdisk.
through this command you will enter in fdisk
"fdisk /dev/hd?"
then type p for printing partitiong table.
and see the number of the cylinders of the partition which one you want to chnage.
then delete the partition you want to resize. enter its number when prompts. after that made a partition in your required cylinders. enter the first cylinder name and last cylinder name when it propmts for them.
then "t" for changing the partition id because by default it will make the new partition of linux by default.
then "w" for save the changes .
in case of any corruption "q" for exit without saving changes.

No, don't use fdisk to resize a partition. When a partition is deleted all its data is lost.
Instead, use GNU PARTED.

no dear if you delete a partition then it doesnt means that you have formatted it . it is just like resizing it . because we are creating a new on same cylinders at the same time.
experience it convert your any fat32 partition in 2 partitions.
and give them the same id "b"=win95fat32.you will loose no data. and it is a linux fdisk with no limits not a microsft fdisk.the same method is used in all the partitioning resizer tools.

Just use webmin. Sooooo much easier.

You won't lose data until the file system on the first partition tries to write to the second partition because it won't know that the 2nd partition doesn't belong to it any more! Also any data that happened to be on the second partition will be lost as soon as you try to do anything with the 2nd partition. Who knows what "scandisk" would do with this situation! I'm sure something very bad!

Resizer programs first defragment the drive to make sure all data is in the boundaries of the first partition, it then modifies the FAT so that sectors in the second partition will no longer be referenced. Then it will proceed to split the partition like the manor above.

Gparted has always worked well for me, the documentation was a little intimidating. So has that little Turbo Pascal program that somebody wrote to run under DOS that used to be included with Linux distributions (I forgot the name of it). Partition Magic also does it, but I've never used it.

It's very dangerous method. You may do this, but you risk much (the whole data).