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Old 05-06-2004, 05:53 PM   #1
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Partition Resizing? Please help a newbie.


Hi,
I kind of screwed myself when I set my intial partitions.
Currently my partitions look something like this:
/ 650 mgs
/usr 3.5 gigs
/home 3.5 gigs
/swap 650mgs
/mnt windows 10gigs

What I would like to do is shrink /windows by about 3.5 gigs and give that space to my /usr partition so I can discover new software programs. Now diskdrake will not touch the NTFS system. No problem, I can use partition magic from windows to resize that. But partition magic will not touch the jouralized RieserFS that I am using for linux. Thus, I cannot allocate the space to /usr. When I return to diskdrake I have 3.5gigs of disk space to play with but diskdrake will not allocate it to the /usr partition.

There must be a way to give this space to /usr without having to reinstall. I just have not yet fouond it.

I am running out of space in /usr, have less than 1gig remaining, but have plenty of disk space in other areas that I need to use more efficiently.

Anyone know how I can give this empty space to /usr? I am new so often I relie too heavily on a GUI interface, but if I had the good instructions would love to learn how to do this from a shell.

Thanks
tsw
 
Old 05-06-2004, 05:56 PM   #2
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I don't know anything better than Partition Magick and it's worth the money for a lifetime!
 
Old 05-06-2004, 11:29 PM   #3
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This actually depends on your partition layout. If the NTFS and /usr are next to each other, it would work, but if you had it, for instance, in the order you listed them here, you'd have a problem. I wouldn't generally recommend too many partitions, unless you know exactly what your usage pattern will be. Swap, root and home are more than enough.
 
Old 05-06-2004, 11:46 PM   #4
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Thanks for responding. You make a good point. The more I started thinking about it became clear that it would not work.

Here is how my partitions are layed out.
/hda1/windows 10g
/hda5/ 850m
/hda6/ swap 650m
/hda7/usr 3.5g
/hda8/home 3.8g

It is good I learned something here. I am terribly new to this business. It is frustrating at times but mostly it is just a lot of fun. I know more for the next time.

Since it is not possible to make /usr any larger is there any way I can make better use of /home? I do not need that much space for my personal documents. Mostly I am a writer and anything I save is text so it does not take up that much room.

I guess the question would be: Can a person install and run software programs from the /home partition? Like I wrote before, I am very new so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
tsw
 
Old 05-07-2004, 02:17 AM   #5
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You could use symlinks

i.e. move some directory to let say
Code:
mv /usr/share /home/messedup/<DIRECTORY>#
ln -s  /home/messedup/<DIRECTORY> /usr/share
I don't think root, swap and home are enough

I think having /usr/local and /var ondifferent partitions is very helpful for instance if you dont want to loose your /var/www and /var/lib
what I suppose would disappoint you ....

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