On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, All:
> When I installed debian on my laptop, I created a root partition of
> ~50Meg (stupid). Right now, the root is very close to 100%. Is there a
> way to enlarge my root partition without rebuild the system
> completely??
In my experience resizing the partition is not the best solution here.
Create a new partition with some space and for example...
mke2fs -j /dev/hda6 (if /dev/hda6 is the new partition)
mount -t ext3 /dev/hda6 /mnt/floppy
cp -a /home/* /mnt/floppy
umount /mnt/floppy
mount -t ext3 /dev/hda6 /home
See that all looks OK
umount /home
rm -rf /home/*
edit the /etc/fstab file as needed
Of course these days it's not that hard to increase the size of a
partition if there is vacant space immediately following it. If the space
isn't next to it (and you're not using LVM) then you're stuck with my
suggestion above.
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