Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 12:26:24 GMT

> I'm told I need to shrink one of my MDK partitions using the parted utility.

You can only shrink a partition if it's not mounted. If you want to shrink your / partition, you have to have a boot disk, a boot disk can be found at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/bootdisk/