I think I have the steps down, but I wanted to verify before I tried. I've got a large hard drive (hdc) that I'm going to be moving to another system soon. It's currently mounted as /home on my system and is one large partition. It's about half full right now. What I'd like to do is resize it into several partitions without losing the data that's on it. What I'm thinking I can do is is this:
1. Set up a temporary mount point for the new /home partition and copy over the files I want to stay on this machine. 2. Unmount the temporary mount point and the old /home and modify the fstab to point /home to the new partition on another drive. -- This is where I start getting nervous -- 3. Run fdisk to set the partition size on hdc1 from 200 gigs to 180 gigs. 4. run resize2fs on hdc1 Then from that point on I should be able to put the disk in a new computer and partition the free space at the end of the drive into a new install right? The drive will have about 90 gigs of data on it which is more than all my other drives combined. Resizing the partition shouldn't touch that data as long as I don't do anything stupid like format, right? Thanks --Ryan Measuring twice...
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