Using Gparted

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Jim wrote:
> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> Jim wrote:
>>> Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>>> /dev/sda1   *           1         510     4096543+  83  Linux
>>> /dev/sda2             511         854     2763180   83  Linux
>>>
>>> This computer has one of those SSD drives in EEEpc
>>> The harddrive has been partitioned with a  / and /home ext3 by FC9 
>>> and operating system is installed.
>>> I split the 8gb SSD harddrive in half, equal to two partitons and now 
>>> I find  /  needs more space than  /home.
>>> I took 1gb away with Gparted from /home and it is now "unallocated" I 
>>> want give that 1gb  , to   /
>>>
>> You will need to move the /home partition to the end of the disk 
>> before you can add the space to the / partition. The problem is that 
>>  the free space is now at the end of the disk, so you can not add it 
>> to the first partition. (It could be done if you were using LVM for /.)
>>
>> Mikkel
> So I would have to reinstall and set my partitions to the sizes I want, 
> That's a shame I had a good clean install and
> now I have to hope I get as lucky on a new install.
> 
> Well as the Marines say, "War is Hell, but Peace Time is a SOB"
> 
Well, it depends on how full /home is. If you can shrink home to 2gb 
or less, and move it into the free space you create, you can then 
grow / to the size you want, move /home back, and expand it again. 
Or you can backup /home, remove it, grow /, recreate /home to its 
new size, and restore it.

But if you are going to try this while booting from the drive, I 
would back up anything important and be ready to re-install. You can 
boot in run level 1, and unmount /home, but it is still risky 
changing the size of mounted partitions.

Mikkel
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