how to resize the existing partition /home on FC3

[Charles Curley]

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.

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