-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 1/4/2006 2:49 PM, ankush grover wrote:
> I want to resize the existing partition /home.Currently /home is of 20GB and > 18GB is full. > > There is one way I can achieve this target > > create a bigger partition say 35 GB(/dev/sdb8),mount this partition on > /home1 copy the files and folders from /home(/dev/sda4) to > /home1(/dev/sdb8), edit the entry in fstab to mount (/dev/sdb8) on /home and > then reboot the system. > > Is there any way I can resize the partition of /home without following the > above example ? The partition type id ext3 what I wanted to know is there > any tool or utility on Linux which can do this? > You can try qtparted (http://qtparted.sourceforge.net) but only if your disk even has more space that you can play with partition sizing. Obviously you need to take backups etc as partition editing can go horribly wrong. If you dont have space on the HDD then i think the only way to do it would be the way you have described. cheers. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDu5TjbR7mO5apBYARAvTBAKCRDsaSGrUneiC49ihQD0UClLdX3gCfU821 RGcNBRLlWeGTIz/pHh2yjw8= =q4kM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
