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
>>>
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