On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Gustavo Seabra wrote: MASSIVE snip here ... > 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. from the snip, your root partition is almost 5G(!) in size, and 91% full, while there's lots of room left in /home. for now, if you want to do this less painfully, just leave that filesystem alone and figure out what parts you can move out of there (/tmp, /var, and so on). then make the /home filesystem smaller and *create* a new filesystem or two in the freed-up space, and remount. it's not the optimal solution (really, the root filesystem should be at most 512M with lots of additional filesystems taking care of the rest), but for now, trying the above is fairly easy and doesn't involve messing with the root filesystem. rday
