I have no more space left on my /dev/hda2 partition which is mounted on / I have a swap partition /dev/hda3 I can create a bigger partition (say /dev/hdb7) to temporary move my root directory. I also can create a new swap partition (/dev/hdb5)
Can I do this : 1 - Initialise /dev/hdb5 as a swap partition (How to do this ? I always did this at the installation time !) 2 - Initialise /dev/hdb7 (Do I have to format it since it has been created with fdisk under linux ?) 3 - mount /dev/hdb7 to /roottmp for example and copy all files from root to roottmp (is a cp -r for all interesting directories sufficiant, in order to keep all the links ?) 4 - Rebooting with /dev/hdb7 as root partition 5 - Fusioning old swap (dev/hda3) and /dev/hda2 in order to get a bigger partition 6 - Copying all files from root (now /dev/hdb7) to the new bigger partition (dev/hda2) 7 - Mounting /dev/hda2 to root 8 - Writing to debian-user : "big problem with my linux box" So, if you can avoid me to through the step 8...I would be very happy Thanks Franck ----------------------------------- Franck Le Gall 147, rue basse - 14000 Caen tél. : 02-31-93-29-09 mobile : 06-62-34-03-52 e.mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------