On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Steven O'Reilly wrote: > Hi > > I have what I hope is a simple problem. My laptop has 4 partitions (Red Hat, > Debian, Win95 and swap) > > Since I'm running out of space I want to combine the two linux partions into > one, but keep my debian installation which has all my e-mail etc and gets the > most use. > > Is my only otion to leave the current partition settup and move things like > /home , /var, or have I missed some obvious tool for doing this? Any pointers > in the right direction would be useful as I have a setup I'm happy with that > can use the internal modem etc.
The safest way is to move say /home to the former redhat partition. mke2fs /dev/hdaX mount -t ext2 /dev/hdaX /floppy cd /home find ./ | cpio -p /floppy/ mv /home /home.old; umount /floppy; mount -t ext2 /dev/hdaX /home Now check everything looks fine, then delete /home.old I use find because it finds files beginning with dot. I do the mv, umount, mount on one line to minimise how long /home is missing. It's not so critical with /home but when doing with /var it's good, don't forget to restart syslog for /var too. -- ---<GRiP>--- Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz Answering Machine/fax: 02 4950 1194 (wait 5 mins if no answer) Mobile: 0408 686 201 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
