Forgive my pedantic idiocy Paul. All you did was boot from cd/DVD/USB with gparted installed, make the resizing and then reboot to new sizes? No extra hacking? I thought mount points were maintained in two places. Am glad to see/hear linux is more tolerant. On Apr 2, 2013 1:48 PM, "Paul Bagyenda" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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???? >>> Thanx >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Regards >>> Sekabira Yasin >>> Address: Uganda, Kampala [Central Region] >>> Mobile : +256 772 062954 >>> Skype: sekayasin >>> Twitter URL : http://twitter.com/sekayasin9 >>> LinkedIn URL :http://www.linkedin.com/in/sekayasin >>> Alt.Email: [email protected], [email protected], >>> [email protected], [email protected] >>> >>> ******** MOVE FAST AND BREAK THINGS *********** >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug >>> >>> Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: >>> [email protected] >>> Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >>> Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug >>> To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug >>> >>> The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: >>> http://www.infocom.co.ug/ >>> >>> The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including >>> attachments if any). 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