[Tfug] A question about partitions

[Dennis McCormick]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Dennis McCormick
<macsinitial65haus at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Wafa Hakim Orman <wafa1024 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> "So be it."
>> --Kurt Vonnegut
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> Go to distrowatch.com and get the link to GParted iso or Pmagic iso.
> The latter works better with newer laptops. Burn the iso to CD-ROM and
> boot from it.
>
> In the Menu is a Features choice that shows what functions can be done
> with which FS.
>
> It's very easy to use the GUI in these distros to resize partitions
> without data loss. I did one yesterday on my dad's extra drive that
> involved shrinking an ext3 root partition (hdb3), moving the
> unallocated space to the other side of the swap partition and growing
> the FAT32 partition without data loss (hdb1).
>
> Dennis McCormick
>
That's Parted Magic, not Pmagic. D