Fernando Meira wrote:
Hi Tero,
what I meant with "redo my partitions" was in the way that I will
expand my gentoo partition (or try to).
I have:
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda4 4.6G 3.8G 803M 83% /
udev 252M 808K 252M 1% /dev
/dev/hda5 23G 20G 3.3G 86% /mnt/share
/dev/hda1 9.8G 8.0G 1.8G 82% /mnt/windows
none 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm
Options:
- erase hda1 (win$) and merge with with hda4.
- somehow rearrange hda5 (which is FAT) and split it 2, and merge a
part to hda4.
The question is...can you live without the windows partition? if you
don't need it I would look at this:
1) Merge hda1 and hda4. Assuming this is desktop box that should be
plenty of space for the system and applications
2) Create a /boot partition (assuming you don't currently have one on
your box that wasn't mounted when you did the df). This way if your
system crashes at least /boot will not be corrupted.
3) Convert hda5 to ext3|reiserfs|jfs|mature non-fat fs of choice. Mount
it as /home.
4) Consider creating a swap partition. Even if you have plenty of RAM,
in my experience Linux just runs better with a swap partition mounted.
I would strongly suggest that you do a full backup before doing any of
this. I know there are partition resizing and reformatting utilities
but they I wouldn't trust them without a backup.
HTH
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