repartition non-destructively
John Thompson
JohnThompson at new.rr.com
Wed Aug 18 03:33:51 UTC 2004
kate wrote:
> What way could I repartition, non-destructively, to
> give more space to /usr and less to /var?
>
> A 20 GB drive, on setup I over-estimated
> space to some partitions (eg. /var), while
> under-estimating space to other (/usr) partitions.
> df -h gives:
>
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda6 3.8G 301M 3.3G 9% /
> /dev/hda1 99M 13M 81M 14% /boot
> none 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda5 4.9G 943M 3.7G 21% /home
> /dev/hda3 4.9G 3.8G 790M 84% /usr
> /dev/hda2 4.9G 267M 4.3G 6% /var
>
> Is there a way to repartition, non-destructively, to
> give more space to /usr and less to /var? I have
> googled but not found anything precise.
> Any suggestions appreciated,
The "parted" utility comes with Fedora. If you prefer a GUI interface
like Partition Magic, try "qtparted" (http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/)
--
-John (john at os2.dhs.org)
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