The latest version of Partition "Magic" does handle linux partitions with
ext2 and ext3 and, of course, swap, but no other type of filesystem.
Parted only works on partitions with ext2 and FAT filesystems. It will not
handle any journalling filesystems.
Smitty
p.s. this reply was from one of the emails recovered by deletion of later
ones in the trash file of kmail.
On Tuesday 01 October 2002 18:40, you wrote:
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>
> When you say "logical" partition, I assume you mean a logical partition
> in an extended partition, since a logical drive has to be hosted by an
> extended partition.
>
> And no, I don't think you can change partitions that way, because of the
> fundamental difference between primary and extended partitions.
>
> And I assume that Partition Magic won't allow this because it doesn't
> fully understand ext2 partitions. I think you should check out a program
> (free under Linux) called parted. I've never used it, but I believe it
> allows you to change partition boundaries, which is what you're really
> looking to do.
>
> Paul
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