partition management in linux - [solved]

[Tim]

oleksandr korneta:
>> The goal is to delete the fat32 partition and extend the ext3 partition 
>> to the whole drive without losing the data. There is no way for me to 
>> backup this data - it is 200Gb drive. Neither gparted nor qtparted 
>> cannot handle this task (I assume these are based on the same lib). 
>> Presumably, parted will fail as well.
>> 
>> Is there any tool for linux (preferably opensource) that is capable of 
>> accomplishing of this task?

Many years ago I had to resize a partition before I could put Linux onto
a drive.  If I recall correctly, it was a Linux tool called "fips" that
did it.

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