There are sevral tools to to repartition, but I think only a ReiserFS
volume can be resized while it is live.. but they don't recommend it.

depending on the filesystem there is
- GNUparted - http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html
- resize2fs
- resizereiserfs - http://www.reiserfs.org/
Newer versions of partition magic also have the capabilities to resize
Linux (Ext2 and Swap) volumes. - 
http://www.partitionmagic.com/partitionmagic/

I have used the first 3 without any problems at all, and would recommend
GNUparted, it has support just just about everything and seems to work
well.

Brian Cluff

On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 10:44, Howard Shaw wrote:
> I did a large server installation several months back and due to an
> oversight did not partition the installation correctly.  Can I partition
> the root partition (/) into root (/), usr (/usr), var (/var) and opt
> (/opt) partitions without loosing data (like partition magic) and if so,
> how?
>  
> Howard J. Shaw
> howard@excelco.com
> 480-217-4214
>