How to resize partitions in Ubuntu (Fawn upgrade problem as well)

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Hi

I have a problems in that i am trying to upgrade to Feisty from Edgy but in the dist upgrade process it tells me i don't have enough disk space on my boot drive (which is a 44meg separate partition). About 8 meg of this is used up with kernal stuff but i still need to free up about 7 meg which means i would pretty much have to delete everything - i assume this would break my system.

Anyway - a 44meg boot partition seems very small so how do i make it bigger (i have plenty of room on another linux partition.

BUT its a dual boot system with WinXP - does this cause any problems - i.e. can i mess up my winxp install by trying to resize linux partitions

my boot driver is EXT2
and the main partition is reiserfs (96gig spare)

(as an aside should i shange to something other than reiserfs now and if so how?)

many thanks

Diss
 
reading around i have seen mention that perhaps i can just move /boot from my /boot partition to my / partition

is this possible and how do i do it?

thanks

Diss
 
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