On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 07:31:51PM +0200, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 11:13:20AM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > When I originally created my disk partitions, I figured 3GB would be > > plenty for my root partition, and gave the rest of my 30GB disk over to > > my /home partition. However, my root now shows 90% usage, and I'd like > > to expand it -- or move my /usr area off onto another partition. Is this > > possible, and if so, can somebody point me to a howto? > > The easiest way is probably to put /usr somewhere else. A possible way > is: > > make a new partition and filesystem for /usr > make a directory /mnt/newusr > mount the new partition at /mnt/newusr > cd / > find usr|cpio -pmd /mnt/newusr > umount /mnt/newusr > init 1 (go to single-user) > cd / > mv usr usr.old > mkdir usr > mount the new partition at /usr > change /etc/fstab > (optional) reboot and check that everything works (after changing > partition tables, it is always a good idea to reboot to see if the > system comes up correctly. If you reboot 3 months later and it doesn't > work, you won't remember why) > rm -rf /usr.old > > To resize your root partition (I tried it, and it seems to work, but I'm > still not sure if I just was lucky) > > make sure there is room to expand (use parted to move other partitions > out of the way) > go single-user > mount / -o ro,remount (important!) > umount everything else > use parted to expand the root partition (it will complain that it is in > use. Ignore the complaint) > when it is done, hard reset the computer (I'm not sure a clean shutdown > wouldn't write to the disk with old assumptions, and with everything > readonly, you should be safe) > hope for the best... > if /boot is on the same partition, have a boot floppy ready, just in > case.
Sorry to followup on my own post. Im just remembered that there are some ready-to-use parted boot and root floppies available. Using those probably makes much more sense than what I suggested. Frank > > Frank > > > > > -- > > Matthew Weier O'Phinney > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://matthew.weierophinney.net > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
