resize partition using gparted
Published by kholis on December 22, 2008 10:40 pm under GNU/Linux
before:

after:

steps:
1. Ctrl+Alt+F1 (go to tty1)
2. login with user: root
3. #/etc/init.d/gdm stop (stop GDM)
4. #umount /home
5. #X & (start X in the background process, X server will be up in tty7. please check by type ctrl+alt+f7)
6. #export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 (set display on tty7 on every application needed X)
7. #gparted & (start gparted)
8. Ctrl+Alt+F7 (to see the display)
9. resize the home partition. and then apply.
10. quit gparted. and reboot the system.

*thx to blog.its.ac.id for the articel