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J.Rafael.S�nchez Itres Research Limited www.itres.com P.403.250.9944 F.403.250.9916 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 3:30 PM Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Does anyone know for procedure for resizing the boot partition? > At 03:21 PM 4/4/03, you wrote: > >----- 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. > > -- > Mark Lane, CET mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hard Data Ltd. http://www.harddata.com > T: 01-780-456-9771 F: 01-780-456-9772 > 11060 - 166 Avenue Edmonton, AB, Canada, T5X 1Y3 > --> Ask me about our Excellent 1U Systems! <--
