expand my ext3 partition

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 07:33:01PM +0000, baza wrote:

> I've got 33gb free on my hard drive. I want to expand hda2 which is a 
> ext3 linux partition, it's the main one other than swap. I've been 
> playing with Qtparted but it won't let me grow hda2 to make use of the 
> free space.
> 
> Anyone know why?

You can't expand an ext3 partition while it is actively in use.  The
simplest way to do it would be to boot from the live CD and resize from
there.

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 - mdz