On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 14:54 -0800, Shane Archer wrote: > At 12:40 PM 1/22/2005, you wrote: > >I believe you can easily convert a ext3 partition into an ext2 partition > >by removing the journal: > > > >http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/s1-filesystem-ext2-revert.html > > > >Then proceed with your resize and add the journal back again later... > > > >Cheers, > >Raman > > I took a look at this, and it seems to be a good solution, *except* that my > root partition (containing /sbin, etc) is the one I want to resize: > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda3 4482820 3768508 486592 89% / > /dev/sda2 101086 7923 87944 9% /boot > none 128028 0 128028 0% /dev/shm > > I am assuming that once I execute umount /dev/sda3, I will no longer be > able to use /sbin/tune2fs or /sbin/e2fsck (or maybe anything at all; I've > never tried unmounting the root partition). > Can't be done when the system is booted. > Is there any sort of way to get around this? Suppose I created a temporary > directory on another partition and copied the necessary tools there, could > I execute them from there? > > Thanks, > > Shane If / is that large, what subdirectory is the biggest? Is /home or /opt in / and not on a separate partition? I would guess you have a LOT of downloaded stuff there that is bloating / unreasonably large. You can easily do a backup of the bulk of the stuff there to get it out of the way. Maybe put it off onto CDs to recover the space. Then after reducing the space required, the actual OS part of / should be about 3 - 5 GB instead of the current 38GB. That could be moved to a new partition in its entirety and by making a small change in grub.conf and fstab you could boot to the new partiton for your system. Once the old / partition is not in use you would be free to do whatever was needed to resize it.
