Hello,

I have the following partitions on my linux box:

swap = 1 Gb.
/ = 1 Gb.
/home = 3 Gb.
/var = 4 Gb.
/usr = 3 Gb.

What I need to do is to change the usr and var partitions to have this:

swap = 1 Gb.
/ = 1 Gb.
/home = 3 Gb.
/var = 3 Gb.
/usr = 4 Gb.

How can this be done ?

Thanks in advance!

I assume that you have a complete backup someplace safe before you try this. If you have a spare partition someplace you could do this:


Format spare, if necessary, using mkfs command.
Copy /var to spare using cp command.
Format /var partition using mkfs command.
Copy /usr to /var partition using cp command.
Format /usr using mkfs command.
Copy spare to /usr partition using cp command.

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Steve Stites

P.S. You would have to do this by booting a liveCD or a copy of Linux in another partition from the ones being copied.

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You didn't happen to format with LVM did you? It would make your life much easier for such tasks. If not, keep LVM in mind when installing your next Linux OS.

If you just need the sizes changed, use the gparted livecd - just use the GUI to move the partition boundary. No copying needed.