Ah... I hadn't looked at parted for a long time.  It appears there IS a way 
to non-destructively resize ext2 partitions with the stipulation that the 
start of the partition must remain fixed.  You can only play with the end of 
the partition.

On Sunday 12 August 2001 08:46 am, Praedor Tempus wrote:
> I do not believe it is possible to non-destructively resize an ext2
> partition.  For this I generally tar and bzip2 the partition that I will be
> resizing and save the tar.bz2 file to another partition that has the
> temporary space to allow this - or I copy it to a zip drive or burn it into
> a cd.  Resize and then untar the archive.
>
> On Monday 13 August 2001 08:08 am, Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > does anyone know if there is something like FIPS for Linux?

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