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> Ian Burrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 04:31:42PM -0700:
> > The commercial software, Partition Magic, resizes partitions and is
> > supposed to be able to resize ext2 filesystems.
>
> No it isn't, nor has it ever, nor will it ever. I don't know where you
> heard this from but it's wrong. The fact that it recognizes an ext2
> partition does not mean that it resizes it.
>
I heard it from Theodore Ts'o, one of the main ext2 people. He was
supposed to be negotiating with the Partition Magic folks to include
support for moving and resizing ext2 partitions. Now, this was back in
September so things might have fallen through or gone awry since then.
- Ian
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