My computer has a dual boot (Mandrake 10 and Windows2000) and I would like to enlarge Mandrake's partition at the expense of reducing Windows2000 partition. So, I am here asking for advice about the safest and the fastest way of doing this operation.
It depends on whether you want to enlarge a specific partition because you are low on space on it, or whether you just want some more storage available on a linux file system.
If it's the latter, then you can just use the tools under drakconf to shrink your doze partition, then create a new partition in the free space and mount it as /data or whatever.
You can use this approach to, for example, increase the storage available under /home, by just mounting the new partition as /home/new-name. This makes /home physically segmented into two, but allows you to use it logically as a single storage area.
It's a little more complicated if you need to really increase the size of an existing partition, so perhaps it would be best if you tell us more specifically what you need to achieve, so we can provide specific directions.
Thanks, Brian. The reason for enlarging my Linux partition is the fact that I have installed so many things that I am fearing that I am reaching the limit of my hard disk capacity. (My Linux partition has 8,5 GB.) I use MS Windows very, very, rarely and my MS Windows partition has 11,5 GB, which is a waste... so, I am wanting to enlarge my Linux partition. How can I check how my Linux partition is being used?
Hoyt: you are very radical... :)
Paul
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