[rhn-users] manipulating linux partitions

[Brian T. Brunner]

One solution is parted (man parted)
This does not look like an easy path since your root partition (hda7) is 
between your var (hda6) and usr (hda8) partitions.

The easy way is to get a new hard drive as large as or larger than your 
current drive, partition it, and copy the current drive partitions onto it.
Then your current drive becomes a backup (do you have another backup 
mechanism? a spare hard drive is probably the fastest and cheapest 
backup method on the market.)

Perhaps easier still is to move some of the larger directories on /var onto 
/usr and put symlinks in /var pointing to /usr.

Brian Brunner
brian.t.brunner at gai-tronics.com
(610)796-5838

>>> mtran at opsec.usda.gov 08/24/04 12:16PM >>>
I have redhat enterprise WS installed on my computer partitioned as
shown below.  How do i manipulate partitions and resize them? Example,
how do i reduce /usr and expand /var.  Thanks in advance for any inputs.

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda7            1012M  275M  686M  29% /
none                     0     0     0   -  /proc
none                     0     0     0   -  /dev/pts
usbdevfs                 0     0     0   -  /proc/bus/usb
/dev/hda1            1012M   38M  923M   4% /boot
/dev/hda2              20G  1.4G   17G   8% /home
none                  503M     0  503M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda3             2.0G   61M  1.9G   4% /tmp
/dev/hda8              48G  2.5G   43G   6% /usr
/dev/hda6            1012M  313M  648M  33% /var

System Info:
redhat-release-3WS-7.2
Linux 2.4.21-15.EL i386 GNU/Linux



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