Using Unallocated space for /home
Michael Schwendt
mschwendt at gmail.com
Tue Jun 30 19:14:54 UTC 2009
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:33:04 -0400, Jim wrote:
> FC11, Using Gparted
> I have 5gb unallocated space that I want to give to /home , how would I
> do it , (Detail Please)
>
> Below is how my partitions are laid out below;
>
> sda1 /boot
> sda2 /home
> sda3 /
> unallocated 5gb
> sda4 extended
> sda5 swap
That's a poor partitioning scheme, because all primary partitions
are occupied, and the free space could only be used to grow /.
Alternatively, if the extended partition contains no logical
partitions other than swap, you could
- disable swap,
- remove the swap partition,
- remove the extended partition,
- recreate it at the start of the free space,
- recreate swap,
- create an additional logical 5G partition.
And then you could either use the logical partition for
a filesystem to be mounted somewhere below your /home where
you need more space. [Or you use LVM (with two physical volumes
building a volume group from which to allocate space for a new
/home as a logical volume).]
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