----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 3:08 PM Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Does anyone know for procedure for resizing the boot partition?
> At 02:43 PM 4/4/03, you wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >Using RH 8.0 > >Using grub > >Using original labels on /etc/fstab > > > >Boot partition created too small. This spells trouble, right? > > Well if you have enough room for your kernel and initrd now it should be fine. > > >Well, I've > >inherited a system that has only only /boot, /, /swap, and a data partition. > >The result, ran out of space on the root partition. > > Okay well you can do several things. 2.4 kernels come with support for use > of mount (mount --bind) > > for instance to move /home to /data you would do the following > > mkdir /data/home > cp -a /home /data/home > mount --bind /data/home /home
=======> Can I do this with /usr, /tmp partitions as well and be able to boot properly. I would think that I would need to edit /etc/fstab and grub.conf perhaps?
AFAIK it should work fine. You would just have edit fstab but nothing in grub should need to change unless you move / or /boot.
> and of course you can add this mount to your fstab. > > This is the easiest way without having to resize your partitions. =======> If I'm able to copy these partitions and still boot, then, yeah, I may not need to rezise the / partition.
You could always back up your current fstab and make the changes and try it. You can always restore your old fstab if it doesn't work.
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