linking partitions

mijohnst · 06-27-2005, 04:44 PM

I had heard somewhere that it's possible to make a transparent link from one partition to another one. For instance if my /dev/hda1 gets full I can make it spill over to /dev/hda5. Is that possible?

J.W. · 06-27-2005, 06:55 PM

You are probably thinking of LVM (Logical Volume Management). This HOWTO guide may be of interest. Good luck with it -- J.W.

uberNUT69 · 06-27-2005, 07:13 PM

Not exactly, however, you could mount hda5 somewhere underneath hda1's root.
(see also the "bind" option in the manpage for mount)

A better alternative is to learn how to use LVM, and then be able to resize hda1 using a live cd like DFS. However, I daresay that would involve a complete reinstall

mijohnst · 06-29-2005, 01:25 PM

Thanks for the input guys. I think i'm just going to use one of the freeware repartition softwares out there and reset the size of my partitions. You all have any recommendations on what software I should use?

mohit dhawan · 06-30-2005, 02:08 AM

partition magic

mijohnst · 06-30-2005, 10:06 AM

I've had problems with partition magic with linux in the past. You have to do a sector by sector copy or it doen't work right.