Using Gparted

[Jim]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> 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
/home has nothing in it , other than the empty folders made by the install.
I was using Gparted from a boot CD.
The 1 gb I want to grow into  / is labeled "unallocated" space.
How do I use the "grow feature"  in Gparted to grow  /  by one more 1gb