Previously, Keith Antoine chose to write:
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 09:33,Bruce Marshall scribed:
> > On Tuesday 15 January 2002 18:26 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> > > Partition Magic _still_ does not understand ext3, reiserfs, jfs, etc.
> > > �If you're only interested in NTFS and ext3 ( and linux swap ) it's OK
> > > but far too expensive.
> >
> > It doesn't have to.  There are other ways to format once a partition is
> > made.
>
> However what happens when you wish to resize a partition/partitions that
> are ext3; it cannot do that, just found out this week. Cannot work with
> ext3 partitions.

But isn't ext3 just ext2 with journaling? Can't you make the partition ext2 
without destroying the data? Then, resize the partition as ext2 and the 
rebuild the journal and make it an ext3 partition?

Just asking...

Tim

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