Can you tell me, how you have partitinated your harddisk exactly, e.g. the output of cfdisk would be nice and how you've mounted them... (i've have some experience with repartitioniering a hharddsik with a running system on it, since i have made this two times allready, playing around with cfdisk, tar and dd :-)
Martin On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Dave McFadden wrote: > I'm trying to gracefully recover from an error I made in my first debian > installation several months ago: While attempting to make /root fairly > small, I created hda3 as 100M, wasting most of a 4G disk. I have just > realized what I did and now I would like to bring this system up to > something more usable without losing the work I've done over the past > several months. > > I can sucessfully create hda4 out of the empty space, but trying to > mount it as /usr /etc /temp etc. only replaces my existing directory > rather than extend that space... entirely reasonable, but it's not what > I need right now. :-) > > I also have a new 8.4G drive that I could simply build a new filesystem > on now that I'm older and wiser, but I don't find a tool that does that, > and with My tiny system now clogged at 99% used, I don't think I could > install it... or don't know how. > > Any and all suggestions on how to grow the storage space on my box would > be greatly appreciated. > > Dave McFadden > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > --- For public PGP key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
