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Problem with partition size



While upgrading from RedHat 5.1 to RedHat 6.0 I ran into a problem that now
my / partition is entirely filled (~70 MB).  Because of this I had no room
to put lilo on that partition and have to boot into Linux with a floppy.

My question is:

I have Partition Magic 4.0 which I just upgraded to 4.01 with a patch. 
Supposedly this version is capable of moving and resizing Linux partitions.
 If I were to resize the / partition using Partition Magic (in Windows 95),
would this resizing automatically be recognized by Linux, or would I have
to do something in Linux to have it recognized?  I assume it is the latter,
so what exactly would I have to do?  Also, would this process destroy
information on the / partition?  In addition, in Windows, when I resize a
partition I have to defragment the partition first in order not to lose
information.  I assume the same would be necessary in Linux if a partition
were to be resized.  Is defragmenting possible in Linux?

Thanks in advance,
Jonathan Daniel
jalexd@escape.com