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> The other day I tried to use Knoppix to resize a partition but kept
> getting error messages about access denied.
>
> Is there something special you need to do to allow you to access drive
> paritions?
>

Did you run the resize utility as root?  The knoppix GUI starts up as user knoppix; to become root you need to switch to one of the consoles (ctrl-alt-1 for console 1, etc) and either do it from there, or set a root password (passwd) and go back to the gui and run su to become root.

 - Doug
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