Repartitioning the Hard Drive.........
 

Hi all,

I need a help on resizing partition on a Fedora4 system (Its a remote system only ssh access possible). Currently my partition looks like the following.......

# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 989M 126M 813M 14% /
/dev/hda5 4.9G 440M 4.5G 9% /usr
/dev/hda6 4.9G 195M 4.7G 4% /var
/dev/hda7 100G 276K 100G 1% /home
none 1009M 0 1009M 0% /tmp

# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 128 1028128+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 129 383 2048287+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda4 384 14593 114141825 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 384 1021 5124703+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 1022 1659 5124703+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 1660 14593 103892323+ 83 Linux

Now, what I want to do is delete the partitions on /usr, /var and /home. After deletion of all these partitions, allocate the free space to /. Thus, my new partition would have maximum space for / and around 1GB for /tmp. After that I would reinstall the OS.
But, the question is how do I accomplish this? From recue?? Even then how.... Please be noted when I reinstall the OS, I don't get the disk partitioning option..thus whatever I have to do regarding partitioning, it has to be done before reinstalling the OS.
Please let me know if anyone of you have answers to this.....

Regards,
Bijit

The only way I can think of doing that is running a livecd like knoppix on the remote system and ssh into that and do whatever you want to the partitions.

Well, If you intend to reinstall and you don't mind losing all of your stuff, you should be able to burn a Gparted liveCD to partition your drive. Then you'd start from scratch.