Thanks for the help guys,

What I actually wound up doing was using the installation disks to try and
make hda4 my home directory after partitioning with cfdisk.  After that I
had some system behavior that I didnt like so I reinstalled everything
again.  I forgot that it took 2 hours to install. LOL. 

However, I only alloted 4G of space for everything except for my home
directory.  Unfortunately, the system says I have used 98.6 percent of
the system partition. Is it possible to safely resize an existing
partition?  OR! Should I reinstall the OS again with more room.

Russ 


On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Alexander Mahabir wrote:

> On 8/19/05, Ben Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 06:57:46PM -0400, J. Milgram wrote:
> > > Suggest you use reiser or ext3 rather than ext2, but ext2 good enough.
> > >
> > > something approximately like this might work
> > > mke2fs /dev/hda4
> > 
> > or
> > mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda4
> > 
> > > mount /dev/hda4 /mnt
> > > mv /home/* /mnt
> > > umount /mnt
> 
> 
> mkdir /home #but it probably was a given =) 
> 
> > add a line to /etc/fstab:
> > > /dev/hda4 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2
> > 
> > Make sure the third word here matches your filesystem type - ext2, ext3, 
> > or
> > reiserfs.
> > 
> > > then:
> > > mount /home
> > >
> > > should pick it up then when it boots.
> > > Good luck, hope that doesn't mess up your system :)
> > 
> > Ben
> > --
> > Ben Stern UNIX & Networks Monkey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > This post does not represent FTI, even if I claim it does. Neener neener.
> > UM Linux Users' Group Electromagnetic Networks Microbrew Software
> >
> 

Sincerely,

Russ Main

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