Repartition question

[Stephen Liu]

Hi folks,

I have a HD running FedoraCore2 with following
partitions

# df -Th
Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hde2     ext3    5.6G  3.3G  2.1G  61% /
/dev/hde1     ext3    105M  7.6M   92M   8% /boot
none         tmpfs    189M     0  189M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hde5     ext3    3.2G  397M  2.7G  13% /home

# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hde: 10.2 GB, 10245537792 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19852 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id
 System
/dev/hde1   *           1         220      110848+  83
 Linux
/dev/hde2             221       12000     5937120   83
 Linux
/dev/hde3           12001       13100      554400   82
 Linux swap
/dev/hde4           13101       19852     3403008    f
 W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hde5           13101       19852     3402976+  83
 Linux

Now I'm prepared to repartition /dev/hde5 creating 2
partitions;

/dev/hde5  as /home for FC2
/dev/hde6  a new partition of about 1.7G for LFS
(LinuxFromScratch)

Can Parted do the job without going through such steps
-compressing data of /home and save it to another
place
-partition /dev/hde5 into 2 partitions, /dev/hde5 and
/dev/hde6
-creating file system (format)
-relogin
-edit and re-edit /etc/fstab
-decompress and save the data back to /dev/hde5
etc.

I expect to find a way to repartition/resize a HD
directly similar to "Partition Magic" on M$Win.

If it is possible please advise where to find the
instruction of relevant steps saving me time going
through all documents.

If it can't, are there any other solutions.

TIA

B.R.
Stephen Liu