I did a dual boot RHL 7.3 & win 98. The harddisk was partitioned into 10GB each. But when installing RHL 7.3, i specified it to install only on 3GB leaving approx 7GB unused. With time i have used the 3GB space and i want to utilise the remaining 7GB.

How can i increase the disk space.

Koome

You have to use the cmd fdisk and creat a partion once that has been done use the cmd mkfs to make a filesystem for that partion. Once that has been done goto your /etc/fstab insert your new mount piont so that it mount s after each startup.

Hope this helps

chow

of course, depending on what partition you intend to enlarge, you'll probably want to consider copying over your data from the old location to the new one.

I only mention this since there is a good chance that you're trying to create a larger /home partition for yourself.

Thanks all. I managed to get the unallocated disk space using partition magic. However, i had to mount it seperately onto Linux i.e on /mount2. This method is not transparent to my users in terms of there /home directories. After their home directories got full, they need to actively move to /mount2.

My question- is it possible to make this process transparent to the users i.e have /mount2 on / so that the users are unaware of storage problems.

Koome.
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Now that you've got the disk space allocated, you're half way there. From here I'd suggest the following:

1. Make sure that your users are not connected and unmount /home
2. Copy everything from /home to /mount2. There are two techniques you can explore for this job. You can use cp -av /home /mount2 or you can use dd to perform a lowlevel block copy of your partitions. For example, I'll assume that you've got IDE drives and that /home is mounted from /dev/hda1, and /mount2 is on /dev/hda3. dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hda3 bs=1024

3. Once all the data has been copied, now you'll want to make your change to /etc/fstab so that /dev/hda3 gets mounted as /home instead of /mount2. Make a backup of the file first and change the appropriate line for your environment.

Adam

Thanks i will try it out over the weekend

Koome
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worked out great. steps followed
- backed up /home to /home2
-edit /etc/fstab and changed the mount point to /home
- umount /mount2
- mount -a
-cp -av /home2/* /home

and i had my users on more disk space!!!

Thanks all
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