hi,
I have installed my laptop with RH linux 9 with using GRUB bootloader to run in dual-boot option.

I created root, swap and /boot partitions during the installation of LInux (anaconda) process. But now I want to create the /var and /home. I still have 7 gig unallocated space available in my secondary IDE drive. I have read article that you can do with parted command. But I don't want to get the space from / (root)partition (12 gig). I want to use the space from 7 gig unallocated space. Is there any way to accomplish this. Can anyone come across this earlier after you install the Linux OS.

thanks..

Hi,

This is definately possible (and it's not too hard either )

Please note: you do not need seperate partitions for /var and /home. I personally have never made them seperate. But if you still want to:

Use the tool fdisk (or cfdisk) and make the partitions from the unallocated space. Then, edit your (make sure you have superuser privledges) /etc/fstab file to mount /home and /var as your new partitions. By looking at the other entries already in fstab, this should be fairly self-explanatory. By the way, fstab is the File System TABle.

I have never done this, but I have set up a few Linux computers and run RH9 on my notebook as well, so it should work.

Come back here for any more questions!

this may work. it may not. the /var and /home partitions already exist. so you may need to set symbolic links after copying the information to the new partitions. i would personally make the new partitions with different names, like /vardir and /homedir, then reboot the pc and copy all information from /var and /home to the newly created /vardir and /homedir directories on the newly made partitions. then i would remove the /var and /home partitions and create symbolic links from the /vardir to /var and the /homedir to /home. i may be wrong. so follow the earlier advice. if does not work let me know and i will go into greater detail.