I was just shown the solution to my problem, using the "sfdisk" program instead of the "fdisk" or "parted" programs.    Apparently "parted" could not work because the drive is not really SCSI, and the "fdisk" program is to "incorrect" and was overwriting a portion of the disk.   however, "sfdisk" turns out to be more correct -- although more cumbersome to use.

Dan

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Yves Bellefeuille <yan@storm.ca> wrote:
On Thursday 12 August 2010 17:56, Dan Yamins wrote:

> I have an NFS volume that I'm trying to resize a partition on.

I suggest you try Parted Magic: http://partedmagic.com/

It doesn't do anything you can't do from the command line, but it's much
easier to use.

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Yves Bellefeuille <yan@storm.ca>
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