resizing root??

[Erick Calder]

hi, I have a single disk on my RedHat 7.0 box partitioned thusly:

Minor   Start     End    Type            Filesystem     Flags
1          0.0  38154.4  primary         ext2           boot
2      38154.4  38162.2  extended
5      38154.4  38162.2  logical         linux-swap
(parted)

I want to shrink the first partition but since it contains the root (df -k):

Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1             38456308   2628584  33874224   8% /
:
I need to unmount it before I shrink... which I can't do.  the anser seems
to be booting from a floppy (which I can do).

MY PROBLEM: is that parted, and all the libs it requires:

# rpm -qR parted
ld-linux.so.2
libc.so.6
libncurses.so.5
libreadline.so.4.1
libuuid.so.1
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3)

are MUCH bigger than I can fit in a floppy, and, as you can see I can't make
a temporary partition that I could mount while booted up from floppy so I
could put parted there...

suggestions anyone??

1,000 thanks - e r i c k