[TriLUG] Resizing partition with ext3 file system

[Ian Kilgore]

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| Umm there is a difference.  If you are NOT using LVM them Jason's case
| does not apply and I am not sure that deleting the partition with fdisk
| will work...  I think that once you fry the partition table and inode
| relationship that you are out of luck.

Not quite.  I did this about a month ago (it was reiserfs, but it still
applys), by resizing the actual filesystem with resizereiserfs or
reiserfsresize (dont quite remember =]), and then deleting and
recreating the partition with fdisk.  Worked fine.
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