Re: [PLUG] Full Partion

[Chuck Peters <cp@ccil.org>]

There is a utility to resize partitions (I think its ext2 only).
Partition Magic uses the same utility for Linux.  I haven't tried it
myself, but looked into it some time back when I was contemplating making
our laptop a dual boot Debian and Redhat.

Whatever you do, the standard warning is warranted.  Backup your data
before attempting changing partitions around.

You didn't mention how large /dev/hda4 is.  But if its large enough I
would copy everything over to it. Here is a little script I use on
occasion for copying things.  You should modify it so it doesn't include
lost+found.  Or maybe someone other PLUG person has a better script or
modification.


#!/bin/sh

if [ $# = 0 ]
then
        echo tarcopy copies directory structures
        echo Usage: tarcopy SOURCE DEST
exit 1
fi

echo Copying $1 to $2...
cd $1
tar cpvf - . | (cd $2; tar xpvf -)
echo done.


Assuming everything copies OK, change fstab and setup any symlinks you
might want, for example: cd / ; ln -s /usr/mp3 mp3

Note I would do this differently if it were a production server as I would
want to make sure I get all the data copied by disconnecting the network
and do it in single user mode.

If you have bandwidth and space else where on a LAN or WAN. Another thing
that can help if you need some more space, use rsync to move some of the
data (mp3) somewhere else temporaily.

Chuck

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Naresh Reddy wrote:

>
> I have a partion (/usr) which is almost full, I have another partion
> completly free (/dev/hda4). Is there a way I can merge these two partions
> together? To create a larger one?
> My disk report is the following (don't know if its helpful):
>
> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1              1921156   1012856    810708  56% /
> /dev/hda5              1676080    126472   1464468   8% /home
> /dev/hda6              1921156    918920    904644  51% /mp3
> /dev/hda7              1921156   1491804    331760  82% /usr
>
> I already created a Filesystem for /dev/hda4 (which is ext3).
>
> Thanks
> Naresh
> -----------------------------------
> Naresh Reddy
> nyg102@psu.edu
> http://www.personal.psu.edu/nyg102
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