i didnt download parted, but when i type parted in terminal, it comes up w/ the parted menu....

Now how in god's name did you do that? I had to download it to boot floppies as it said from the website.

Secondly, does someone know the proper context in which to run this application? What I mean is, the proper keystrokes to actually resize a partition?

I wouldn't use partition magic. Use "parted" which was suggested earlier. Be aware, though, parted can be a helluva prog!

Chris

Thank you, however, you haven't really helped me. Let me say exactly what I have. . . .

I have a 4 GB root partition that I'd like to increase to 6. Can someone tell me step-by-step what to do if using the parted boot floppies? Thank you.

Well, I guess I have to be logged in as root to use it. DUH!! Anyway, if someone could help me with this, I'd appreciate it. This is the menu I have when I start the program. What I want to do is resize my root partition to 9 GB. I know I said a different size before, but I changed my mind. Can someone tell me the keystrokes I need to accomplish this? Thank you very much.


[root@ASUSA7V266-E root]# parted
GNU Parted 1.6.3
Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Using /dev/hda
Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hda is
9732/255/63. Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M.
(parted) ls
check MINOR do a simple check on the filesystem
cp [FROM-DEVICE] FROM-MINOR TO-MINOR copy filesystem to another partition
help [COMMAND] prints general help, or help on COMMAND
mklabel LABEL-TYPE create a new disklabel (partition table)
mkfs MINOR FS-TYPE make a filesystem FS-TYPE on partititon MINOR
mkpart PART-TYPE [FS-TYPE] START END make a partition
mkpartfs PART-TYPE FS-TYPE START END make a partition with a filesystem
move MINOR START END move partition MINOR
name MINOR NAME name partition MINOR NAME
print [MINOR] display the partition table, or a partition
quit exit program
rescue START END rescue a lost partition near START and END
resize MINOR START END resize filesystem on partition MINOR
rm MINOR delete partition MINOR
select DEVICE choose the device to edit
set MINOR FLAG STATE change a flag on partition MINOR
(parted)

Ok after trying loads of new libraries and automakes and stuff.. I'm trying to use extf2fs or whatever it's called ... it's a command called resize! which could be really helpful, but I need, as posted here, to have my partition unmonted... but...The question remains ... how am I going to access a program (resize) which is in an unmounted partition?

this is a mess. please help me...

oh by the way parted doesn't install, because it need's automake and i've downloaded automake and now this one doesn't compile..