Hi,

I saw a post about this topic in the discussion board, but I am having other problems with it...

By default, Mandrake 10.1 Community sets up an OS partition and a data partition. My OS partition was about 5.8GB, the data partition was about 70GB. I want to resize my OS partition to about 10 or 15GB. When I go into the Mandrake Contorl Center | Mount Points | Partitions, I can see my partition structure. I try to unmount my /home directory partition and I get an error saying it's in use (even though it is empty and nothing is running off of it). Even if I could resize that partition, how can I resize my OS partition as I will be using it?

I appreciate any help in this. Thanks.

Ryan

You can't resize a partition (easily) to my knowledge. You have to have set up you system to use LVM for that to be possible.

What you can do is mount the /home partition somewhere more useful, like /usr/src. Or you can copy the entire
/usr structure to that partition and mount that under /usr

If you are logged in as root you should be able to umount /home. Do a 'lsof | grep home' and see if anything's open.

If you can I'd recommend a reinstall to 10.1 Official Edition and choose manual partitioning.

- Peder

Try booting from the install disk. I think if you run another install/upgrade, you can manage the partitions at that step.

Personally, I use Knoppix as a "Rescue CD", that I can use to mess with partitions that would otherwise be in use.