System must be shutdown of course. Or rather, booted off a gparted CD/DVD/USB. Used it before, works like a charm. Saved us much trouble on a live installation where root was unacceptably small and 12m users had to be kept happy going forward…
P. On Apr 02, 2013, at 13:40, Jake Markhus <[email protected]> wrote: > Isn't fips dynamic and user friendly? I last used fips many years ago when > the only concern was not to damage the Windows partition. > Is it really safe to resize root "on the fly"? I seem to recall many files > containing the location and size information of the root partition. > Has anyone done this? > Paul will gparted edit/update the required files? > > On Apr 2, 2013 1:33 PM, "Kizito Thomas" <[email protected]> wrote: > before doing a thing first backup all partition data for those partitions you > think will be affected. > > sent from SamSung Mobile > > On Apr 2, 2013 12:57 PM, "Paul Bagyenda" <[email protected]> wrote: > gparted should be able to do this for you in a non-destructive manner. It > will inform you if it cannot do so, so not much of a risk trying it. > On Apr 02, 2013, at 12:00, sekabira yasin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Halo, >> i'm dual bootin' Windows8 Plus OpenSuse12.3.., My partitions look as >> follows:- >> >> mamawalu:/home/mamawalu # df -h >> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >> devtmpfs 2.9G 8.0K 2.9G 1% /dev >> tmpfs 2.9G 84K 2.9G 1% /dev/shm >> tmpfs 2.9G 4.0M 2.9G 1% /run >> /dev/sda6 20G 4.1G 15G 22% / >> tmpfs 2.9G 0 2.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup >> tmpfs 2.9G 4.0M 2.9G 1% /var/lock >> tmpfs 2.9G 4.0M 2.9G 1% /var/run >> /dev/sda7 304G 311M 303G 1% /home >> mamawalu:/home/mamawalu # fdisk -l >> >> Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes >> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors >> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes >> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes >> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes >> Disk identifier: 0x4c195b60 >> >> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >> /dev/sda1 2048 718847 358400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT >> /dev/sda2 718848 421529599 210405376 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT >> /dev/sda3 421529600 1260390399 419430400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT >> /dev/sda4 * 1260390400 1953523711 346566656 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) >> /dev/sda5 1260392448 1264607231 2107392 82 Linux swap / Solaris >> /dev/sda6 1264609280 1306564607 20977664 83 Linux >> /dev/sda7 1306566656 1953503231 323468288 83 Linux >> mamawalu:/home/mamawalu # >> >> i would like to increase the size my root Partition /dev/sda6 [usage is 22%, >> 15Gib available], and i want to shrink from the /home partition [303Gib >> Available], like 100Gib 2 add to the Root Partition, Any Help???? 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