Jay Kline <list at slushpupie.com> writes:

> I have a disk that has a bad partition scheme (whos idea was it to make /usr 
> 20G and /var 300M ???) I managed to get everything onto one partition, so the 
> other partitions on the disk are now useless.  Is there a way I can fill the 
> partition to take up the empty space?

parted can do this sort of thing.  http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/

The commercial product partition magic is rumored to support ext2
partitions in recent versions as well.

Personally I've had better luck with parted than partition magic (even
using partition magic on Windows partitions). 
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