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Subject: Re: "Live" resizing of a mounted partition
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On Thursday 26 October 2006 14:20, bsd wrote:
> Is there any tools to do that while my partition is mounted (growfs  
> does not seem to allow that) ?

No, this cannot be done, since the kernel doesn't support
resizing a mounted filesystem. It's not matter of tool.

Nikos