repartition active machine

[Bob Hartung]

Thanks.  I forgot about the nasty old fstab - successfully tried real 
hard to forget it!  :)

Thanks again,

Bob

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 31 March 2007, Bob Hartung wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>   Here is the issue & I am a relative newbie:
>>    I have a older Linux server with two partitions: /mammdata and
>> /rgdata.  The latter partition is no longer needed as the storage
>> requirements exploded and it was all moved to a NAS.  /mammdata is
>> almost full.  Will this scenario work:
>>
>> 1.  Back up all data on /mammdata (this is a SMB share)
>> 2.  fdisk and delete the partitions /mammdata and /rgdata1
>> 3.  create a new partition to use all the space no longer used by the
>> two deleted partitions
>> 4.  mkfs.ext3 -jvL pt-data
> 
> You'll probably need a reboot here.  And DON"T forget to fix /etc/fstab 
> before the reboot.
> 
>> 5.  restore the backed up data from originally on /mammdata
>>
>> Thanks for you input,
>>
>> Bob
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