> Marco, I've used this process with ext3 file systems when we need to extend a 
> partition (usually on a SAN drive or a VM server where you add additional 
> space via the host)  Note, this process ONLY works on the last partition of a 
> drive, if it's not the last one, don't do this!  I have successfully resized 
> a couple ext3 root partitions with this process:

Well, as my luck would have it, I need to resize /, and my layout is
/dev/sda1 /boot
/dev/sda2 /
/dev/sda3 swap
/dev/sda4 Extended
/dev/sda5 /home

(I didn't build it!)

>From what I can remember, using cpio was more robust/trustworthy than
tar, because I'll need to backup /home and restore it after...

Marco

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