shrinking ext3

[Garrett Goebel]

> From: enabled at linuxjunkies.com [mailto:enabled at linuxjunkies.com]
>
> I thought  you could just dd the info over to a new hdd and
> then back over? after you change the setup of the drive?
> or
>
> partition magic?

dd just copies 1 and 0's starting at an address. I remember reading an
article once that told the reader to defrag a drive, calculate free space,
and dd the drive using bs=1M and count=[size]... I don't remember why the
author was recommending it however.

Partition Magic 8 does ext3... And I've read of successes with gnu parted.
Though I've also read of people saying you have to convert your ext3 drive
back to ext2 before doing it.

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