Hello,

I had a 10G hard drive that was full. I bought a 80G drive, and used a Linux utility (g4l or something like that) to ghost the old drive. Now what I have is

/dev/hdb1 /boot (a few hundrend Meg)
/dev/hdb2 Swap (a few hundred Meg)
/dev/hdb5 / (about 9G)
/dev/hdb6 Swap (I could be wrong about this partition being a swap space)

And about 70G of free, unformatted disk space.

How can I resize and move / to the larger space?

If I am to restart from the beginning, what should I have done to use the 80G drive?

I use Suse 9.3, by the way.

Thank you
VN

I suggest that you look at the utility parted. man parted should get you started, or parted -h

It can do this and more. You will need to be root to run it.

-I would copy the root / partiton back to the 10gb drive (if you have changed anything while running the new disk. if you didn't you can skip this)
-then I would turn off the second swap hdb6
-delete the hdb5 and hdb6
-create a new hdb5 that will be big about 70gb-swap2, create swap2 with the remaining space
-reboot so the new partitions get detected and mount them somewhere
-copy the / partiton from the old 10gb to the new partition you created with cp or tar
-edit fstab on your new root partition you just copied and reboot

Thanks guys. I got it resized.