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Old 09-20-2007, 02:07 AM   #1
mmehta
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Extend The Size of /root


Hi Expert,

I am new in RHEL 4.0 , Due some reason i want's to increase the size of /root partition. What is the best way to increase the size of root partition? Please Explain.

Thanks in Advance
Mani

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Old 09-20-2007, 05:56 PM   #3
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why do you need to increase the size of /root?
you would normally use a paritioning program, fdisk, cfdisk, gparted etc.
 
  


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