Resizing partitions

[Keith]

On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 11:44 -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>     On my /dev/hda I have the following:
> 
>    Device Boot  Start   End   Blocks   Mount
> /dev/hda1   *       1   261  2096451   /
> /dev/hda2         262   783  4192965   /var/log
> /dev/hda3         784  1256  3799372+     <=== empty
> /dev/hda4        1257  1583  2626627+  [extended]
> /dev/hda5        1257  1517  2096451   /tmp
> /dev/hda6        1518  1583   530113+  [swap]
> 
>     My problem is that when I originally set this machine up, I made the 
> mistake of allocating 2GiB for / and I have now run out of space twice.  
> So, since I have 3.6GiB available in that empty space (it used to be 
> another partition that I no longer need or use,) is there some way I can 
> combine or add that space to / without having to rebuild the machine?  
> Or am I just SOL?

You can attempt to combine the partitions with GPARTED live CD, back up
your HD first. You could make the partition a /usr partition and edit
the /etc/fstab file to add the partition as the usr directory. You could
also use the extra partition as /home or both.  



Best Regards, Keith
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