Resizing an Ext2 partition
 

I need to resize an ext2 partition at the beginning of the drive to fill the unallocated space on the end. Partition Magic 7 apparenty cannot do this. I have alot of data on that partition and cannot loose it. Anyone have any ideas on how to go about doing this?

thanks.

i'm surprised that part magic can't do it. are you sure?

yes there are occasionally errors on PM7. But i can alwasy work around it. For example, if i want to resize a drive, it shows up some Inode errors, go to their website, tells u to send all this info to them. For me, i'll try deleting the particular partition, then create a new one. Worked for me last time. There are usually a number of combination to do it, but you hav less combinations i think sinze you have important data on the partition.

I dono...the option is greyed out when I right-click the drive..

I know that the utility "resize2fs" will let you extend a /ext2 file system, but not the partition. Anyone know of a utility to do the partition part? Then it should be trivial.

well the most imporatint thing is that the data on the partition isnt lost..

I remember manipulating my /ext2 partitions with Partition Magic Pro 5.0. Could it be the "Pro" version only works with this?

Hm anyone have a copy of PM7 Pro that could check before I go buy it?

my version of PM is not pro, but it worked for me.