"file system" is used by a computer to organise data.
"filing system" is used by a secretary to organise a filing cabinet, or a librarian to organise books.
That you talk about partitions suggests that you mean the former.

Of course, I may be mistaken. Can you provide me with any documented use of "filing system" to refer to a computer "file system"? For eg. all the man and info pages use the former not the latter. (man fsck)

This is trivial, I'd normally have figured this for a typo, so I stuck it in the post-script (BTW).

This was not intended as a critisism - just a heads-up. Lets move on.

As for the rest: when you dd those mega-partitioned drives, do you routinely dd into larger drive spaces then qparted some partitions to a larger size?

If you really think that adding non-contiguous disk space to a partition is trivial - see the following thread: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=432242