Partiton Magic "should" do what you want, it does work with ext3 not just ext2. Ive used it before to resize & move linux partitions with out any problems, so you should be fine.

Note that if you recreate larger / partition and move data there (new VM or new HDD) you might have to hack grub configs, otherwise system won't boot. I spend a few hours once copying and resizing ...

Messing around with the hard drive’s structure is high on my list of the most unpleasant things to do with a computer. However, my basic do-it-myself credo is to never pay a computer shop guy to do ...

There may be times where you've either decided to partition a drive or are finished with a partition and wish to remove it and dedicate the space to another partition. The disk management tool Disk ...