Hi friends,
I was compiling the kernel last night omn my mandriva 09 but ran out of space on my hard disk partition.So anyone can help me in resizing the partition without deleting the partiton's data
my / partition is full


Here is the /etc/fstab

#entry for /dev/sda5:
uuid=d90c643c-eb13-11dd-892a-79860145e77 / ext3 relatime 1 1

#entry for /dev/sda7 :
uuid=9ccf1df0-8107-11dd-ad34-1b2b8fd334e6 /home ext2 relatime 1 2 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto umask=0,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0

#entry for /dev/sda1 :
uuid=A8D00D65D00D3AD8 /mnt/win_c ntfs -3g defaults 0 0

#entry for /dev/sda2 :
uuid=387028B2702878B0 /mnt/win_d ntfs -3g defaults 0 0

#entry for /dev/sda3 :
uuid=CE1434A614349405 /mnt/win_e ntfs -3g defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0

#entry for /dev/sda6 :
uuid=9cabfeba-8107-11dd-a5c9-39c728f9dfe6 swap swap defaults 0 0


saurabh

Resize with parted magic CD

The uuids may change on / ...so replace it with /dev/sda5

Basically shrink the NTFS drives and extend / partition

'<free space> /dev/sda5 <free space>' is ok for expansion

friends well i do not have entry for /usr in fstab since it is mounted under / so how can i make a new entry for /usr
can i do it as follows

cp -pRP /usr/* /mnt/win_c/usr/

(that means to a folder in windows already mounted partition)
if yes then how can i know uuid

saurabh

you shouldn't do that as it will erase the permission settings of the contents of /usr (the -p flag doesn't help as far as i know, because the ntfs filesystem uses another permissions system)
but you can create a .tar.gz and then extract it onto a new partition, like ...

then use gparted to shrink a partition and create a new linux compatible partition (e.g. with type ext2 or ext3) in the resulting free space.
ALWAYS BE CAREFUL WHEN YOU WORK ON PARTITIONS, YOU CAN EASILY LOSE ALL YOUR DATA
then edit your fstab accordingly, mount /usr and extract the file /mnt/win_c/usr.tar.gz into /usr

would that be a good idea for you?

Uh, if you just want to compile a kernel, wouldn't it be easier to just mount another partition on /usr/src or wherever your kernel source tree is?

if you have free space on your /home partition, you can also create a new folder there, move your linux source tree there and make a link there from your directory in /usr
the command line procedure could look like this (note that this is not useful for copy+paste, you have to adapt it)
that would be easiest, i think

Well friends i can only boot in safe mode
everytime i try to boot normally it says not enough space

i ran
df
it outputs

filesystem 1 kblocks Used Available Use % Mounted on
/dev/sda5 6301256 6299732 0 100% /
/dev/sda7 3842376 1626316 2216060 43% /home




i tried to keep a backup of /usr data by tarring it

tar -czf /mnt/win_e/usr.tar.gz /usr

it outputs:
tar: Removing leading '/' from member names
gzip:stdout:No space left on device

Can i use gparted here & how

No, it doesn't deal with files, only with partitions.


So your disk was filled with an incomplete backup, all you need is to locate it and delete it. Assuming that the safe mode allows you write operations all you need is du to locate where the space is being wasted, and rm to delete the incomplete backup. If you know where the file lives then that will ease the process.

If you can't write in this "safe mode" then you will probably need a livecd to boot, then mount the partition somewhere and operate from there.

well TITiAN i tried
rmdir /usr/src/linux[your-version]

but it too failed
i think thats because i have 0 bytes free space
i cant delete it

till now nothing is working

well tell me if i have a live cd
& free space how can i make /usr partition

rm -rf ....

then possibly rmdir ...

man rmdir

remove the unfinished backups

Thanks a lot amani
I can now boot normally into my mandriva
i used
rm -rf
to remove unused space
Really happy to see you back Mandy