Partition Out Of Space? How to resize from another partition?
 

Hi.

I'm on Mandrake 9.2 and i found out it has used all of its space! 4.8gigs.
I formated the partition in Reiser-FS.

I don't know how to use DiskDrake (Is that the partition manager for Mandrake?) that's why i use PartitionMagic 8 in XP.

However, it was then I realized PartitionMagic can't resize Reiser-FS.
So I resized my XP partition to have 1 gigabyte unallocated and I thought maybe i can merge these 2 partition (the unallocated and the current RFS) in DiskDrake but it seems that I can't. I can't even unmount because linux is using it!

Help!!
Thanks in adv!

http://planet.time.net.my/Technology.../partition.png

You can mount two partitions to one mount point tho e.g.
/dev/hda3 and /dev/hdb1 can both be mounted on /home or whatever mount point you want

You can create another parition and mount it at a cetain directory. For example, if you had a few gigs available, you can make a new partition there, and put all the stuff in /usr (the biggest directory of all) there. Then you rename your old /usr, and mount the new partition to /usr. If it works, you can delete the old /usr and free up several gigs of space on the / partition.

BTW, please put your snapshot in a webpage, your host won't let us access it directly.

Thanks but now it mandrake ask me whether to hide the files or move the files to the new partition. What does it mean? Which one should I choose?

And thanks aaa, i didn't know my host is blocking them. :-)

Do it at a command-line. Rearranging stuff in /usr won't work with X running. Boot in runlevel 1 with the 'single' option at the boot menu.
*after creating & formatting new partition, say, hda7*

Okay, i've chosed Move Partition and nothing goes wrong.. :-)

By the way, i tried to change the moint point for /dev/hde6 (which by default : /mnt/hde6) to /box

however, whenever i restart mandrake, it mounts back to /mnt/hde6

how do i make mandrake listen to me?

To change mount points, edit /etc/fstab w/ text-editor as root. It is pretty straightforward. However, Mandrake might change it back. If that happens, I think there is something you should disable in the Mandrake Control Center.