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Subject: Re: "Live" resizing of a mounted partition
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>
> Is there any tools to do that while my partition is mounted (growfs does not 
> seem to allow that) ?

AFAIK - no.
umount, growfs, mount

so you have to make small root partition, and partitions for others, so 
you will be able to do this without shutdown, and (with good care) 
remotely.