On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Joe Giles wrote: > I was wondering what utility I could use to shrink a partition and use > the free space to grow another partition? Here is what I have:
Try parted or PartitionMagic. > What I want to do is shrink /home (/dev/hda6) say one gig and use that 1 > gig to grow / (/dev/hda7) partition. Maybe. I don't know if parted will let you do this, but you need to shrink hda6 from the front, not the back. Growth needs to be into contiguous free space, so you'd have to free up the gig from the start of /home, rather than the end if you're planning to give that space over to / on hda7. A better use of your time might be to figure out where all that space in / is going. My guess is it's being gobbled by /var. Why not shrink /home, and create a dedicated /var partition instead of dangerous mucking around with your root partition? If you hose data in /home, you'll live. If you trash your root, get out your install disks. -- "Of course I'm in shape! Round's a shape, isn't it?" -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
