Partitioning (ex: Installing Fedora on RH9 (newbie))

[Ninux]

>> I take this opportunity to ask some other questions.
>>
>> 1) I did the upgrade, but it wasn't an upgrade... I had to reformat the
>> partition and install Fedora, because the upgrading programme wanted
>> 400 M more. Do you know why?

>The default disk layout is a bit different.  My guess is that one of the
>partitions didn't have enough room to hold the current RPMs and the new
>ones to be installed (for a brief time, they both must be on the disk).
>If it wanted another 400MB, then you had a partition that was pretty full

Full? I installed only the system and the partition is 4G!

Anyway, is it possible to increase its size mantaining all data?

Thanks,
Nino

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