[ilugd] increasing the size of the existing partition on FC3

2006-01-04 Thread ankush grover
hey friends, 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),

Re: [ilugd] increasing the size of the existing partition on FC3

2006-01-04 Thread Ankur Rohatgi
-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

Re: [ilugd] increasing the size of the existing partition on FC3

2006-01-04 Thread Gora Mohanty
ankush grover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to resize the existing partition /home.Currently /home is of 20GB and 18GB is full. [...] The partition type id ext3 what I wanted to know is there any tool or utility on Linux which can do this? I am using FC3. GNU parted lets you resize ext3

Re: [ilugd] increasing the size of the existing partition on FC3

2006-01-04 Thread ankush grover
On 1/4/06, Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ankush grover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to resize the existing partition /home.Currently /home is of 20GB and 18GB is full. [...] The partition type id ext3 what I wanted to know is there any tool or utility on Linux which can do

Re: [ilugd] increasing the size of the existing partition on FC3

2006-01-04 Thread Gora Mohanty
ankush grover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Suppose my /home partition is on first hard drive (/dev/hda4) and there is no space on the first hard drive.If I install the 2nd hard drive(/dev/hdb) can I take the whole or some free space from the 2nd hard drive and add it to the /home partition

Re: [ilugd] increasing the size of the existing partition on FC3

2006-01-04 Thread Atul Tyagi
Wouldnt it be possible using the method he described ? Changing the fstab mount points etc ? I feel that was the better method. Your data won't be at risk. Atul Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com ___ ilugd

Re: [ilugd] increasing the size of the existing partition on FC3

2006-01-04 Thread Raj Mathur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gora == Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gora ankush grover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Suppose my /home partition is on first hard drive (/dev/hda4) and there is no space on the first hard drive.If I install the 2nd hard

Re: [ilugd] increasing the size of the existing partition on FC3

2006-01-04 Thread Gora Mohanty
Ankur Rohatgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/4/2006 5:05 PM, Gora Mohanty wrote: ankush grover wrote: [...] Suppose my /home partition is on first hard drive (/dev/hda4) and there is no space on the first hard drive.If I install the 2nd hard drive(/dev/hdb) can I take the whole or some free