Jeff Vian wrote:
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 06:32 -0600, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
Thanks for you reply, and sorry it took me so long to answer. It took me some time to realize I needed the - in the su command to get this to work. But here it is:Gustavo Seabra wrote:
Instead of "df -h", "fdisk -l" would have been more useful. We want to see the actual partition layout of the partition table....C. Linus Hicks wrote:
Sorry, I just found a way to get the info. Here is the result of df -h:On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 10:47 -0600, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
That was my second mistake ;-) I didn't use LVM... The way I saw it is, since I only have one HD, why should I need LVM? Now, from your post, it seems that LVM has advantages even for single HD, is that right?
By the way, since I didn't use LVM, and wat to increase the size of / (root) taking space from /home, am I just screwed?
Not necessarilly, it depends mostly on your partition layout. What partitions have you defined - please give device (disk) names and mount points.
If you are in a situation where you can either temporarily delete a
partition after having backed it up, or shrink an existing one to create
a new one, then you should have some options available to you.
Do a "man resize2fs" and read that.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 4.9G 4.2G 427M 91% /
/dev/sda1 99M 17M 78M 18% /boot
none 125M 0 125M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda2 12G 683M 11G 7% /home
What I'd like to do is to take a couple of Gigs from /home and put them into / (root). I believe I can backup and erase /home without problems, but how can I put this space into root?*IF* sda2 and sda3 are contiguous in the partition table (probably, but not guarenteed without looking at the actual allocation info) you might be able to resize(move) sda3 to the upper regions, re-size the partition sda3, then merge the new space onto the end of sda2. If you are lucky, you should then be able to expand sda2 into the re-claimed space. Not easy, but it should be straightforward if you know the right commands.
If you have no experience doing this, I'd heartily recommend backing up the data in both sda2 & sda3 before attempting this for a first time!
Thanks
Good Luck!
[root@patroclus ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 18.2 GB, 18210037760 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2213 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/sda2 14 1511 12032685 83 Linux /dev/sda3 1512 2148 5116702+ 83 Linux /dev/sda4 2149 2213 522112+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5 2149 2213 522081 82 Linux swap
Looking at this information and your request above, I would recommend the following.
1. Backup anything in the / partition that you want to keep. This includes config files, customizations, mail, web site data, etc.
If you want to do a full backup/restore you may be able to do that by using tar and creating a file in /home of all the data in / (but not including /home and space permitting)
2. Boot from some live distro such as knoppix, and use qtparted to resize sda2 smaller by the amount you want. Then remove and recreate sda3 to fill the new larger space.
3. Reinstall, or restore the data for sda3.
These 3 steps should handle what you are asking for
Thanks Jeff,
All would work perfectly if it wasn;t for one detail: QTParted doesn't resize ext3 partitions, as all of my partitions (but swap) are. So, I'm starting to believe that, if I want more space in root, I'll really have to reinstall the system.
Thanks,
-- -- ---------------------------------- Gustavo Seabra - Graduate Student Chemistry Department Kansas State University ----------------------------------
