repartition non-destructively
kate
kate7234 at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 13 19:57:28 UTC 2004
OK, "2) combination of parted and resize2fs" looks
good. having quickly man'd / googled all suggestions.
I need to carefully read up on the subject.
I'll practice on an old drive, first!
Thanks,
Kate
--- "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Aug 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,
> > thanks in advance,
>
> options (from most to least ambitious):
>
> 1) switch over to using LVM2, where you can resize
> at will
>
> 2) combination of parted and resize2fs
>
> 3) don't really resize. just cheat and move stuff
> using symlinks if
> you just want to fix the problem for now with the
> least effort
>
> rday
>
> p.s. your root partition is a little on the large
> side as well.
>
>
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