On Saturday 31 March 2007, Bob Hartung wrote:
>Hi all,
> Here is the issue & I am a relative newbie:
> I have a older Linux server with two partitions: /mammdata and
>/rgdata. The latter partition is no longer needed as the storage
>requirements exploded and it was all moved to a NAS. /mammdata is
>almost full. Will this scenario work:
>
>1. Back up all data on /mammdata (this is a SMB share)
>2. fdisk and delete the partitions /mammdata and /rgdata1
>3. create a new partition to use all the space no longer used by the
>two deleted partitions
>4. mkfs.ext3 -jvL pt-data
You'll probably need a reboot here. And DON"T forget to fix /etc/fstab
before the reboot.
>5. restore the backed up data from originally on /mammdata
>
>Thanks for you input,
>
>Bob
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