[ext2resize] Partition tables...

[Tobias Q. <tob...@bi...>]

Hi,

I'm having a slight problem understanding how ext2resize works, is it
not meant to rewrite the partition table as well as resize the actual
partition. I am using it to upgrade a Linux Mandrake 7.0 disk to Linux
Mandrake 7.1 so I want to increase the size of my / partition and
decrease the size of the /home partition. So I thought I'd resize /home
to be 2Gb smaller, then install Mandrake in the free space (a minimal
install) so I can umount / and then resize the / partition to be +1Gb
and then remove the new install of Mandrake, and increase /home by 1Gb.
But, when I do an fdisk after resizing the /home partition it reports
the partition is still using the same number of blocks on the drive
which I think means I can't add a partition to do the new install. I
suppose I could solve this by using a floppy version of linux but I
can't seem to find one that runs with libc6 (Does anyone know of one? or
how to compile ext2resize to work with libc5?).

Many thanks in advance,

tobias.