Hello to all,
I am using RedHat Enterprise Linux 4. While installing I allocated 1GB for /home partition. Now it is almost full. I have another partition /various with 512MB space.I want to format /various partition and allocate the space to /home. What are the procedures to do that?

Thanks in advance.

Well there are some details you need to consider (and that you need to give).

First of all, what is the file system of the /home partition? Some resize easily, others do not. Second, are the /home and /various partitions sequential in the partition table? In other words, is it something like:

hda2 - /home
hda3 - /various

If there is a partition in the middle of them, it makes things more complicated. If they are right next to each other (preferably with /various after /home) then it is just a matter of deleting /various and expanding /home to make up the difference. But if there are other partitions involved, they will need to be shuffled around, which could be a problem (and will most certainly be more difficult).

If your partitions were setup using LVM you should be able to resize them..

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/e...lvm-intro.html

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LG/issue84/vinayak.html

Actually I have a dual boot system with Windows XP and RHEL4.
While installing I used Disk Druid to create the partitions. Filesystem is ext3. I created /various and /penguin after the installation using fdisk command.

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
dev/hda10 1012M 332M 629M 35% /
/dev/hda7 494M 14M 456M 3% /boot
none 125M 0 125M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda9 1012M 838M 123M 88% /home
/dev/hda8 6.0G 4.1G 1.6G 72% /usr
/dev/hda11 494M 372M 98M 80% /var
/dev/hda12 494M 0 494M 0% /various
/dev/hda13 3.4G 2.6G 611M 82% /penguin

I havent used LVM. Do I have to reinstall to resize?

you may be able to resize using the bootable gparted CD http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

May want to backup your data before you start to make changes, just in case.. Partimage might be a good tool to backup your current partitions .. http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page