Richard Layton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, May 07, 1998 at 07:05:07PM -0700:
> I have gone off and did a bad thing. Instead of making separate
> partions for /usr /home /local etc. I have just made one big /
> partition and now it is full. To my understanding it is impossibe to
> resize a ext2 partitionI want to install StarOffice but I do not have
> enough room. So my question is: If I wanted to install StarOffice in
> the /local dir, would I have to backup everything in the /local dir,
> erase the dir, make a larger /local partition, store the backup, and
> then install StarOffice?
There is a program from PowerQuest (they makers of Partition Magic)
called resize2fs that will grow and shrink ext2 partitions. From what I
understand it will eventually be released under the GPL, but until that
time only those with registered keys to Partition Magic 3.x will be able
to use it.
No, this is not an illusion; resize2fs is a reality. If you want to
read the posting by Theodore Ts'o, one of the Linux FS gurus, search the
linux-kernel archives.
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Scott
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