On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Richard Layton wrote:
>I'm running out of space in my linux ext2 partition. I need to take
>about 300MB or HD space from my msdos partion and add it to my /
>partition. This MUST be possible. Can anyone tell me how I would go
>about doing this?
You can't actually resize the partitions without backing everything up,
rerunning fdisk, and then restoring everything.
What you can do, however, is to take that extra space and mount it in
somewhere on your other partition -- then it will all behave as if it
were one large disk (or at least one large tree). That's one of the
niceties of Unix. For instance, if you need extra space say in
/usr/local, you could mount that extra partition at /usr/local and then
all of /usr/local will now be actually going to the second partition
instead of the first one.
I still recommend you back everything up though, it's safer. You'll want
to run fips on the DOS partition and lop it off with less than it had
before, and then remake a new partition in the extra space, and then
make a filesystem on it. Then you can get dirty and start moving things
around.
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