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[LUG] Resizing ext3?

 

Hi all,

My laptop's current partition structure is as such:
Disk /dev/sda: 160 GB, 160039272960 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        8678    69706003    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3            8679       17903    74091780   83  Linux
/dev/sda2           18153       19457    10474380    5  Extended
/dev/sda4           17904       18152     1992060   82  Linux swap
/dev/sda5           18153       19457    10474380   83  Linux

If I were to remove the swap and Extended partition, and re-create the 
swap at the end of the disk, thus leaving approx. 10GB of unpartitioned 
space between the existing Ext partition and the new swap... if I were 
to do that, would I be able to successfully resize the existing Ext 
partition to absorb this 'left-over' space?  Have any of you had 
problems resizing Ext3 like this?

Cheers.
Grant.

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