[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > no, no. i am already having win95 and rh6.2 running well on 2GB each on > a 8.5 GB drive. > > the problem is that i had left remaining 4 GB for NT and other backup > purposes. now addicted to linux, i am not interested in NT and i want to > expand both the above partitions by 1 GB each. > > is there any FAT and ext2 utility which can seamlessly expand the > existing working partitions by including remaining unused unformatted > space? > > of course, this new space has to be contiguous. Another way of doing something *similar*: make new ext2fs partitions and mount them somewhere under your / e.g. if u have lots of stuff in /usr/local # mke2fs /dev/hdxx # mkdir /mnt/mytemp # mount -t ext2 /dev/hdxx /mnt/mytemp # cp -Rvf /usr/local /mnt/mytemp After checking that ALL of /usr/local has *really* been copied to /mnt/mytemp: # rm -Rvf /usr/local Add the entry to mount /dev/hdxx under /usr/local in the /etc/fstab file. Now u have free space on the /usr or / partition wherever /usr/local resided. The advantages of this sort of an approach, i.e. multiple smaller partitions rather than 1 big / partition: I feel that the system is more upgradeable. If the filesystem gets corrupted only a specific partition will get corrupted. fsck'ing is faster. I thing one ought to keep /usr, /usr/local, /opt and /home on separate partitions. Rather, I remember someone suggesting that / be mounted Read-Only, with writable parts of ? like /var etc. getting their own partitions. I think it is part of the FHS. regards, sachin ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the 'What to do before posting to the list' site for a list of things to try before posting. The site is at http://botsie.tripod.com/beforeposting/
