how to increse my var directory?

sanjay2004 · 11-17-2010, 02:34 AM

hai

my /var dir partation /dev/sda7 of 965M, how to increse this size using free available disk space?

[root@SANJAY-CMS 500]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 4.8G 3.1G 1.5G 69% /
/dev/sda2 190M 9.9M 171M 6% /boot
tmpfs 379M 0 379M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda8 965M 39M 877M 5% /home
/dev/sda5 3.8G 1.6G 2.1G 44% /usr
/dev/sda7 965M 61M 855M 7% /var

colucix · 11-17-2010, 02:45 AM

You can try Gparted. It comes as an application and as a bootable LiveCD. It should run flawlessly, especially if you have just to enlarge a partition using available free-space. However a backup of your envaluable data is always recommended before attempting any operation on partitions.