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Originally Posted by IvanEBC
I read (but for the life of me cannot find) that you can edit the RDB to simply use the rest of the room and it wouldn't be destructive (like manually editing the last cylinder??) ... or i'm happy to wipe DH1 and resize and re(quick)format so it is 7.7gb (sounds safer and easier)
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You cannot resize a partition without data loss.
To make the additional space available to HDToolbox you can use this:
http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/fixhddsize
You can add a new partition (DH2) to that space or delete/recreate DH1.
That said, I think with PFS3 it is possible to add more space to a partition. First change the partition size in HDToolbox, then run the DiskValid tool which comes with PFS3 to fix the partition. But this procedure will not increase the space reserved to the directory. PFS3 reserves a certain percentage of the size of the partition for the directory. This is done during quick-format. It cannot be changed later. So if you store a lot of small files on the partition, you might run out of directory blocks some time.