how to resize the existing partition /home on FC3

[Robin Laing]

Charles Curley wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 11:47:48AM +0530, Ankush Grover wrote:
> 
>>   hey friends,
>>   I want to resize the existing partition /home.Currently /home is of 20GB and
>>   18GB is full.
>>   There is one way I can achieve this target
>>   create a bigger partition say 35 GB(/dev/sdb8),mount this partition on
>>   /home1   copy   the   files   and  folders  from  /home(/dev/sda4)  to
>>   /home1(/dev/sdb8), edit the entry in fstab to mount (/dev/sdb8) on /home and
>>   then reboot the system.
>>   Is there any way I can resize the partition of /home without following the
>>   above example ? The partition type id ext3 what I wanted to know is  there
>>   any tool or utility on Linux which can do this?
>>   I am using FC3.
> 
> 
> Look into parted. "yum info parted" (as root) should get you
> started. After you install it, "info parted" for the docs.
> 
> For GUI front ends, you have your choice of gparted and
> qtparted. They are available (for FC4) in extras.
> 
> 

I would also suggest you look at lvm on your new partition.  It will 
allow you to add partitions to the volume.  I just did it and it is 
great. :)