partitioning new installation

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 10:49:46AM -0500, wattst-dxuVLtCph9gsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org wrote:
> Although I agree that growing is probably by far a more common operation, I
> think I need shrinking just as much since when I run out of space, I usually
> shrink another partition to grow the other one.  I don't like the idea of
> leaving disk space alone, unformatted so I guess at install and change it
> later.
> 
> I'm one who would love to see shrinking support added.

I think you will just have to put up with having to unmount the
filesystem first.  Or learn to have less partitions so you won't ever
have the problem in the first place (I use that method).

Len Sorensen
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