Resizing Paritions

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 20:37 3/13/2004, you wrote:
>Check out GNU Parted, I've never used it myself, but it claims the
>functionality your after.
>
>http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/

Craig, if you top-post, it is much harder to follow a discussion logically. 
Please consider posting at the bottom (and trimming appropriately) so text 
follows a simple chronological sequence as it is read.

Parted will indeed move and resize partitions without damaging data 
(although backups are always recommended... no tool is ever bullet-proof). 
I've used it at least 150 times over the last three years with good results 
every time so far.

>On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 17:50, Mark Limburg wrote:
> > When I built the Fedora box, I may have underestimated the size assigned
> > to /usr ... I'm about 1.5G free in there, and I've got plenty of space
> > in /home I could redirect into it.

While parted will do what you want, I would not advise you to change 
anything at this point. If you have already installed your system the way 
you want it, you are not bloody likely to install an *additional* 1.5GB of 
packages into /usr. In my case it's never happened. I would suggest that 
you not change anything for now... then later, if and when you find 
yourself with less than 300MB or so in there, *then* you can go and resize 
your partitions.

At a guess (but based on lots of experience), the odds of your filling that 
partition are so low as to warrant not taking any action at this time. You 
can always do it later, but I would think the odds of your dropping lots of 
stuff into /home is higher... the installed software does not grow 
dramatically, but user data usually does.

Cheers,


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
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