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Old 12-05-2005, 11:25 PM   #1
scoobs
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Expanding Root Partition and Other Partitions


Hello, I currently run Suse 9.3 Pro. I previously had WinXPro dual-booting on my system and then went to dual-boot with Suse and Ubuntu on a 60GB Hard drive. My setup is as follows;

/dev/hda 55.8GB
/dev/hda1 Extended 26.5GB
/dev/hda2 7.1GB Root Partition with only 502MB Free
/dev/hda3 1.1GB Swap Partition
/dev/hda4 21.0GB Home Partition
/dev/hda5 26.5GB Storage

Basically my whole /dev/hda5 is available. And I would like to increase my root partition because I only have 502MB free. I would like to take and add another 5GB to the root partition and take the remaining amount and expand the /home partition. I only use Suse now and no other distro on this machine.

Can someone giveme some advice on moving or resizing these partitions without lossing any data?

Thanks

John
 
Old 12-06-2005, 02:09 AM   #2
Emmanuel_uk
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Distribution: Mandriva mostly, vector 5.1, tried many.Suse gone from HD because bad Novell/Zinblows agreement
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Do some backups 1st. Some background on resizing tools
http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html
 
Old 12-06-2005, 02:57 AM   #3
exvor
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man resize2fs works with ext3 as well. Personaly resized
my own ext3 with no data loss using e2fsck resize2fs and cfdisk

bakup your stuff first tho.
 
  


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