On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:40:56 -0800, Andrew Zbikowski <andyzib at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 18:30:17 -0600, Steven Cayford <strayf at freeshell.org> wrote:
> 
> > Parted _says_ it can do this (www.gnu.org/software/parted). Parted is included
> > on Knoppix among others.
> >
> > -Steve
>
> <obvious>If at all possible, backup your data first.</obvious>
>  Then even if parted doesn't work, and destroys all the data, you can
> expand the partition the using the method that will always work...
> Backup data, destory the old partition table, create a new partition,
> format the volume, and restore all your data. :)

True, except I don't have space to backup!

I can't lose this data, so a second partition it is. Thanks to Joseph
for the article, anyhow. Good read.

-John