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what kind of filesystem? is all your space used up? are you using lvm? more information about your system please? Are you using Sata, Scsi, PATA? and is your system setup so that PATA drives still show up as sda or sdb drives?
Best I can do now is tell you delete your swap space. create a new partition with fdisk, then do the following
Code:
mkswap /dev/sdNX or hdNX where N = device and X = partition number
There is no need to delete the current swap - Linux can use multiple swap extents. Can be new partitions, or new swap files - the latter created with dd. Add to fstab, and use the same (swap) priority.
Lots of how-to's out there.
As always, more than one way to achieve the required reslt.
what kind of filesystem? is all your space used up? are you using lvm? more information about your system please? Are you using Sata, Scsi, PATA? and is your system setup so that PATA drives still show up as sda or sdb drives?
Best I can do now is tell you delete your swap space. create a new partition with fdisk, then do the following
Code:
mkswap /dev/sdNX or hdNX where N = device and X = partition number
There is no need to delete the current swap - Linux can use multiple swap extents. Can be new partitions, or new swap files - the latter created with dd. Add to fstab, and use the same (swap) priority.
Lots of how-to's out there.
As always, more than one way to achieve the required reslt.
Bootdata ok (command line is root=/dev/sda5 vga=0x317 resume=/dev/sda3 splash=silent showopts)
Linux version 2.6.16.13-4-smp (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.1.0 (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP Wed May 3 04:53:23 UTC 2006
Bootdata ok (command line is root=/dev/sda5 vga=0x317 resume=/dev/sda3 splash=silent showopts)
Linux version 2.6.16.13-4-smp (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.1.0 (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP Wed May 3 04:53:23 UTC 2006
sudo is merely a means of running with root authority - login as root and do the deed (minus the "sudo").
sudo might be handy in a general sense, but is overkill to install it just for this. How to install it depends on distro.
so the first column is the device the second column is the mount point and the third is the filesystem the fourth field is the options field and the fifth field is the dump frequency and the last field is the pass number. so to answer what filesystem you are using here is the answer.
/ = reiserfs
/boot = reiserfs
/usr = reiserfs
Last edited by jstephens84; 02-12-2009 at 04:53 PM.
so the first column is the device the second column is the mount point and the third is the filesystem the fourth field is the options field and the fifth field is the dump frequency and the last field is the pass number. so to answer what filesystem you are using here is the answer.
I'd use gparted. Search your package handler and install it.
It's the graphical partition editor, and allows editing a partition, which includes resizing.
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