Can I Resize A Partition With dd?

From: Hank Kingwood (hank_at_bogusaddress.xyz)
Date: 08/24/03 

Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 18:36:40 GMT

I modified my /dev/hda3 partition to occupy more physical space with
fdisk and dd by doing this:
 
dd if=/dev/hda3 of=<NFS_path>/hda3.img bs=4096
fdisk /dev/hda
I resized /dev/hda3 to be bigger
mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda3
dd if=<NFS_path>/hda3.img of=/dev/hda3 bs=4096

Everything on the system appears to work. My questions is:

Q1: Would there be any problem with the file system?

Suggestions? Comments?

Thanks,
Jack

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