On Sunday 13 March 2005 21:18, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > How can I enlarge the / partition? > > Thanks in advance, > > Paul
diskdrake in MandrakeControlCentre>MountPoints>Partitions can resize a Linux partition, but that assumes that you have contiguous free space available on your drive at the end of the current partition. A more likely scenario is that you have space on a different hard drive, or on a different part of your existing drive, in which case the simplest solution is to mount part of your current file system on a new partition. You could for example mount /usr on a new partition. When you use diskdrake to create a new partition and select a mount point which already contains files (such as /usr), then diskdrake will offer to copy the existing files to the new partition for you. The new partition can then be mounted without any interruption. Note: I am not sure if diskdrake will remove the files from the 'old' partition in which case they will still be there and consuming space, but will be hidden from view by the 'new' /usr partition sitting on top. In order to delete those files and free up the space you would have to boot with MandrakeMove, Knoppix or some other liveCd distro and delete them. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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