Hi,

I have a single root partition running FC3. I need to create a new partition and install centos on that. How to create a another partition while FC3 is running on that partition. I found one site where it says running a minimal linux on swap and then partitioning the root file system.
http://www.xmlvalidation.com/repartion_server.0.html

Please can anyone give comment on this method.

OR

is there any better technique.

I dont want to do this partition by going to rescue mode. Since i need to do this remotely.

Thanks in advance

You cannot work on a partition while a FS on that partition is mounted.

I have always used gparted for partitioning. Since this is a live cd, you can boot through this and don't have to be logged into FC to do this.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

So all you would have to do is shrink your existing FC partition and then create new partitions in the newly freed space.

C'mon guys read the question - this is a remote system, and the link specifically doesn't have the original partition as the active system when repartitioning is done.
Have to give the author credit for originality.

I don't like the idea of copying the running system, but it should work. *IF* you can get a modern (even FC3) system to fit in the space occupied by your swap partition.
Of course if you are using a swap file rather than partition, even that becomes moot. Wouldn't catch me trying it on anything other than a test system though...