How to resize ext3 partitions?

[Paul Howarth]

Ambrogio wrote:
> Il giorno gio, 11/05/2006 alle 08.34 -0300, Marcelo Magno T Sales ha
> scritto:
>> Hi,
>>
>> What software can I use in FC5 to resize an ext3 partition? I've tried 
>> qtparted and gparted, but in both of them the "resize partition" option is 
>> disabled. Why?
>>
> Ext3 is a filesystem and not a partition.
> So to resize a partition you can use all tools related to it (for
> examples fdisk)
> 
> To resize the filesystem you have to use other command.
> ext2resize I don't remember but I think works online.

There's resize2fs for offline filesystem changes, and ext2online for 
online changes. Not all size changes can be done online though - 
ext2online will tell you if it can't do it.

Paul.