From: Res on
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Helmut Hullen wrote:

> Hallo, john,
>
> Du meintest am 29.12.09:
>
>> In slackware 13 I have resized a reiserfs using the command
>> resize_reiserfs. That worked ok but I can't figure out how to
>> resize the partition.
>
> You always need a backup.
> And when you have a backup you can partition the old harddisk from
> scratch and then restore the backup. That's a safe way.

your close, normally, you have a full backup then it will work and it wont
be needed, if you dont backup, you'll fail and be screwed.
It's one of those "murphy's laws' type thing :)

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Res

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