Resizing partitions
Keith
ac7xc1nx at gmail.com
Wed Oct 4 21:15:28 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 11:44 -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> On my /dev/hda I have the following:
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Mount
> /dev/hda1 * 1 261 2096451 /
> /dev/hda2 262 783 4192965 /var/log
> /dev/hda3 784 1256 3799372+ <=== empty
> /dev/hda4 1257 1583 2626627+ [extended]
> /dev/hda5 1257 1517 2096451 /tmp
> /dev/hda6 1518 1583 530113+ [swap]
>
> My problem is that when I originally set this machine up, I made the
> mistake of allocating 2GiB for / and I have now run out of space twice.
> So, since I have 3.6GiB available in that empty space (it used to be
> another partition that I no longer need or use,) is there some way I can
> combine or add that space to / without having to rebuild the machine?
> Or am I just SOL?
You can attempt to combine the partitions with GPARTED live CD, back up
your HD first. You could make the partition a /usr partition and edit
the /etc/fstab file to add the partition as the usr directory. You could
also use the extra partition as /home or both.
Best Regards, Keith
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