On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 12:19, James Wilkinson wrote: > Mark Haney wrote: > > I am almost certain this has been discussed on here before, but I want > > some expert opinion on this. I have an FC2 box at home that dual boots > > XP. I only use XP for games and I'm running out of space on my FC2 side, > > what's the best way to add the extra space to my FC2 install? I have > > partition magic to use for shrinking my XP partition, so that's not going > > to be a problem. Anyone have any preferences? > > How is your hard drive partitioned? > > Assuming it's something like > hda1 xp > hda5 / > hda6 swap > my preference would be to make either a new /home partition or a new > /usr partition (depending on how much space you're adding and how full > those trees are getting). The I'd temporarily mount the new partition > somewhere, copy everything from the old tree to the new filesystem, > set up /etc/fstab to mount the new partition in the right place, > reboot, check that it's working properly, *then* reboot to blow away > the old file tree. > > Erm... you should be able to delete the old files under /usr or /home > from single-user mode. You might find it easier to use tomsrtbt, the FC2 > rescue CD, or Knoppix (or similar): that way you're not trying to run a > system from the same partition that you're modifying. > > You'll still need to have an (empty) /usr or /home directory on your > root partition: Unix-like systems expect to mount filesystems on > existing directories. I had this problem before. And I used partition magic too. Only caveat I had was that since I was having grub on the linux partition and not the MBR, I had to re-run rub on the new hda5 (in your case) and then everything works. The new space is seen and recognised. No need to backup anything (YMMV). But I was using ext3 FS. I've switched to XFS and a separate /home partition once I upgraded my HD from 30Gb->80GB. Minimal Fuss. ps: Even with a 80GB, I'm still running out of space. Luckily for me my "the one who must be obeyed' persuaded me to part with extra $$$ for the extra 20GB (I was aiming to get a 60GB originally)
