Dana Holland wrote:
In order to install one of the kernel "fixes" that are available for my 7.3 system, I would need to increase the size of the / file system. I've done a search on google for instuctions on increasing the size - all I seem to find is instructions to move things out of the file system - nothing on how to actually increase it. Is there some reason I wouldn't want to increase it?
If you want to non-destructively resize your partition, you may want to look into a disk utility called GNU parted.
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html
Something not mentioned here is that if the disc is fully partitioned, you'll have to reduce the size the the partition next to the one you want to increase. You can't get something for nothing.
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Very much true. I would also add that if you have more than one partition other than the root filesystem (/) and those partitions are native linux filesystems (ext2, ext3, etc...) this may prove very difficult because parted has a restriction of not allowing the start of those types of partitions to be moved. Therefor to increase / you need to somehow shrink and move the next logical partition to make way. However, if the next logical partition is, say, linux-swap, it will not be a problem since parted does not have a restriction on that type of partition. See the parted documentation for more details.
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