[Tfug] A question about partitions

[Matthew T. Eskes]

Depends on which filesystem you used. XFS tools has xfsgrow and then ext*
has their tool. Shouldn't been too hard. Now, as far as I know, XFgrow is
more non destructive upon the file system that you want to grow but you will
have to hose one of the filesystems in order to allow the one you want to
grow to.. Grow. Then you will have to replace the information. IF I remember
correctly ext.tools has something similar as does murd^H^H^H^HresierFS
tools. All I can honestly recommend is that you do some research and find
out what you need. May turn out that it would be better to just back up and
nuke and start over. Being as that I can't really see what your situation is
other than what you described, that is what I would personally suggest other
than just research and see if you cant come up with something.

 

 

Matt

 

 

 

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From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org] On Behalf Of Wafa
Hakim Orman
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 9:22 AM
To: tfug at tfug.org
Subject: [Tfug] A question about partitions

 

Hi,

I have a strange quandary. Way back when I partitioned my hard drive (a
small drive, on an old computer), I kept 5 gigs for root & 10 for /home.
Well, now I have barely 400 MB free on root & almost 4 gigs free on /home.

Is there any way to shift disk space from /home to root without losing any
data? Alternatively, can I split up that unused disk space to mount other
folders (like /usr)? And if yes, which ones would be best?

Thanks in advance,

Wafa.

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