[ Thanks to Falko
Timme for this link. ]
“This article is about resizing ext3 partitions without losing
data. It shows how to shrink and enlarge existing ext3 partitions
and how to merge two ext3 partitions. This can be quite useful if
you do not use LVM and you realize that your existing partitioning
does not meet your actual needs anymore.“There are many ways of achieving this goal but this is the way
I take. I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for
you…!”