HI,

My linux server home2 partition is full now. All the files which is there in home2 is importand and our database need all these files .I want to increase home2 partition.

Is there any possiblity to increase the size or i can link to other linux partition.But There should not be data lost.

Thanx
Rajasekar G

Hi rajasekar...

in http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=186099 you have a similar situation that you can adapt to your case (I copy-paste from there):

1) Use cfdisk to create a partition in a new disk or using free space in your current hard disk (call it emmmmm.... /dev/hd??)
2) mkfs.ext3 /dev/hd?? to create a ext3 file system in the new partition (you can use ext2, reiserfs... of course).
3) mkdir a new directory in your system... call it emmm... /home2_new
5) mount -t ext3 /dev/hd?? /home2_new
4) cd /home2 && tar cvf /home2_new/home2_new.tar * (with tar you keep the symbolic links)
5) cd /home2_new && tar xvf home2_new.tar && rm home2_new.tar
6) vi /etc/fstab and change the line with /home2 bla,bla,bla with /home2 /dev/hd??.
7) reboot


Bye.

thanx goala for reply.

with refer your suggestion , My hard disk free space size should be more than home2 .But my hard disk doesn't have that much free space.
In this case , is there any possiblity to increase the space or i need to install one more harddisk.

I don't have experience with partition resizing.

I know you can resize ext2 (maybe ext3 too) partitions with win32 programs like PartitionMagic. In linux we have parted (http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/)... but like I mentioned before I don't have experience with that.

I would be glad if you shared your tests with us!.

Bye.