[wellylug] Partitioning, Fluxbox and modems (again)

[Bill Christiansen]

Nick Jensen wrote:

>
> Is it possible to shrink a partition without losing the data on it? I 
> would rather not delete the Fedora partition, because I have played 
> around with the settings alot and I don't want to re-learn how to 
> configure things like grub, bash, emacs and so on.

you can use a program called qtparted a graphical partition magic clone. 
One way to get this is on a SystemRescue live CD (about a 100Mb download 
for the CD iso but has a number of other utilities) or you could back it 
up to an image on another drive to restore later.
http://www.sysresccd.org/

>  "ppp Daemon died suddenly". This happens every time, and since the 
> modem is the same one I use with Fedora, I figure it must be the driver?
>
this could be a user / device permisions issue, see if it works when 
you're logged on as root. You may need to add "noauth" to the kppp 
script, or if you're using a latter version of the kernel it may need an 
updated driver.