William Shank on Fri, 28 Dec 2001 09:26:47 -0500


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RE: [PLUG] need to resize partition


 parted - but it's destructive- so i had to move the data off first.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Nelson
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
Sent: 12/28/01 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] need to resize partition

Just out of curiosity what did you use to resize the partitions?


On 27/12/01 12:13 -0500, William Shank wrote:
>  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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