I've been trying to resize my fedora installtion within' windows but Partition Magic 8 doesn't seem to be able to move or resize fedora partitions. I have XP and Fedora on the same drive and I made 15 gb available to add to my existing fedora core 3 installation and would like to just add it to that. Does anyone know a program I can use in windows to resize it or a method in linux to do the same? Thanks.

Can you provide some more information as to the file system you're using for Fedora and an output of what your partition table looks like? In Fedora run the following commands as root:

# df -T
# fdisk -l

I can't get back to fedora, because my grub is now messed up with having to install XP again over the partition. What information could I obtain from windows that would help you?

Can you find out what the file system type of the Fedora partition is in partition magic? Also my method of resizing the Fedora partition revolves around using Fedora or possibly the rescue mode of the installation CDs. That being said as long as the Fedora partition is still there you should be able to boot off the Fedora installation CDs into rescue mode and reinstall grub from there.

For my / partition it says it's Type 8E, whatever that means and my swap is showing up as Linux Ext3. I just want to expand it so that I can run and update because I need to do it anyway from the CDs but I don't have enough room atm to do that

The method I've used when the disk space is above the partition I wanted to expand involves:[list=1][*]creating a partition larger than the current one above it[*]formating that new partition as ext3[*]copying all the data across from the original partition[*]using fdisk under linux to delete the original partition and new partition[*]recreating the new partition starting from the same place but ending where the old partition did[*]forcing an fsck (required by resize2fs) and then running resize2fs on the expanded partition to expand the file system[/list=1]
Partition type 8E is listed as Linux LVM so that might be why Partition Magic is refusing to resize it. There may another way to resize partitions that use LVM that I'm not familiar with.

Do you have something like KNOPPIX available to you so you could resize the partitions without the disk being in use? That helps because you don't need to reboot to reload partition table after you change it.

I would have to get GRUB back working in order to do that because now that I re-installed XP I don't have the option to get back into Linux. Even when I'm in it I don't have KNOPPIX or even fdisk for some reason. I didn't think of copying the the partition over, can I do that in Partition Magic without getting into trouble? Thanks for the help, it's much appreciated.

I had the exact same problem and tried all the suggestions. Use partition Magic to delete your Fedora partition. Then use partition Magic to down size your Windows partition until you have enough room for Fedora and reload Fedora Core 3. I found this the easiest way.

Yes I was afraid of that. I'm sure there is a way around it but this is probably the easiest way. It's just that I finally got everything working the way I liked it, but I guess it can't hurt. Thanks for all the input.

I had 20 gig for Fedora Core 3 and within a month it was 48% full. I gave Fedora 30 gig for future growing.