Moving/Resizing Partitions... parted?

From: Baard Ove Kopperud (baard.kopperud_at_bigfoot.com)
Date: 05/05/04

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    Date: 4 May 2004 18:47:15 -0700

    I underestemated the space I needed for installing linux,
    and was wondering if you could give me some suggestions...

    On my disk I first have 3 primary partitions, followed by
    a *large* extended partition. On the extended partition,
    there are several logical partitions... and some free space
    at the end (of the extended partition).

    The logical-partition I need to grow is (typically) squeesed
    between two logical-partitions I want to keep... so just
    merging the one I want to grow with one of those, is out
    of the question. There are also a couple of *other*
    logical-partitions (that also are in use) following these
    three.

    I was wondering if it's possible to just move *all* of
    the logical-partitions following the one I want to grow
    in one "chunk" a couple of GB closer to the end of my
    disk, thus making a "hole". The partition I need to grow,
    may (if it's necessery) be formated (new filesystem being
    created)... I just need it a few gigs larger.

    Is it possibel to this with 'parted'? How exactly (I would
    prefer moving several partitions in one "chunk"? Are
    there other (preferbly free -- or shareware... preferbly
    linux) tools that are better/more intuitive?

    Finally, can you recomend a GUI-frontend for parted (that
    at least let me do what I need)?

    -Koppe

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