What steps are needed to resize an existing disk partition when the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is not being used?

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Issue

There is not enough space on one of your filesystems, but there is on a filesystem located on another partition and the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is not used to "virtualize" your physical storage.

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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