On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 10:14:31PM +0530, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a 10 GB partition, of which around 8 GB is used.  Now, I have to
> shrink that partition to 9GB due to certain reasons (more specifically,
> remove 1 GB from the end of the disk). I edited my disklabel, and reduced
> the size to 9GB, and (surprisingly) things seem to work alright.  Is this
> OK, or could I run into probs later on ?  Or is there some way to move all

You may run in problems later, when you'll try to access data outside of the
partition.

> the data to the beginning of the partition, and then do the above ? (It is
> an ext2fs partition, on an i386; and I also have Linux installed, if
> that might help).

Maybe there's an ext2fs tool for this, I don't know.

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