http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/debian-linux-help/13985-lost-data-when-resizing-reiserfs.html

> I used Qtparted to shrink the reiserfs one, and then I used cfdisk to create
> the fat32 partition (should I have rebooted the computer before using
> cfdisk? I dont't know.). Then I rebooted the computer, and received a lot of
> error messages.

If you shrunk the reiser partition, then you're pretty much SOL. To shrink a reiserfs partition, you have to use a program called resize_reiserfs (included with reiserfstools) to shrink the filesystem first. Then you can use fdisk or cfdisk to resize the partition itself. AFAIK, QParted is just to resize FAT/NTFS filesystems.

documented on: 09-19-2004, sarumont