you will want to used 'parted' i think it's called. there is a gui version too, qt-parted

if you need it on a live cd, you can get the livecd at http://www.sysresccd.org/

that cd is even capable of resizing an ntfs partition

On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 02:04:37PM -0700, John Olson wrote:
> I'm been running RH-7.2 with ext3 FS on a server for about 3 years with a
> promise raid mirroring array.  It originally had 40GB drives, but now I've
> let the promise array rebuild the drives to new hardware so now I have 2
> 160GB drives with 40 GB used.  I want to use the free space as part of the
> /home partition.  I've tried resizing the /home partition using various
> methods using  Partition Magic, Ghost, and Acronis True Image.  Acronis came
> the closest, but corrupted the boot sector and I wasn't clever enough to get
> it to work.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.  Even creating a separate
> partition in the free space would be OK.  Anything other than rebuilding the
> system from scratch or adding a separate drive array is my goal.
> 
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