RE: [PLUG] need to resize partition

[William Shank <wshank@mbcnet.com>]

 not an option for vaio r505

i manged to do it almost completely successfully, except the xserver won't
start by default.

also, how do i format a partition to ext3? mksf -t ext3 /dev/hda11  doesn't
work

thanks 

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Brosius
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
Sent: 12/27/01 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] need to resize partition

William Shank wrote:
> 
> i ran out of space on / (only 240M partitioned) - but the /opt dir has
90M,
> so I'd like to move it onto it's own partition. the /var slice has
lots of
> room (dedicated 1G, only using 100M).
> 
> how can I unmount /var, split it, and remount /var and mount /opt on
the
> other slice?
> 
> I know linux has a partion splitting util and RH7.2 has a graphical
> partioning tool, but can these be undestructive? will it work with
ext3? how
> can I umnount /var, says it's busy - i guess with httpd, and lpd,
anything
> else?

Easiest way is to boot with a boot/rescue disk, change the partitions
around as you need, mount your root partition, and change the mount
points (/etc/fstab) as desired.  That avoids worrying about what is
accessing the file system when you make the changes.

(Be careful you don't change the partitions before you save or move data
you need on them.)

-- 
Kevin Brosius

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