You might also want to look at GNU Parted (http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/). I've only used it once, but I was quite impressed by it. It also supports lots of different filesystems, not just ext2/3 like resize2fs.
Matt On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 10:27:37PM -0700, Ryan wrote: > On Thursday 16 May 2002 10:15 pm, Sam Peterson wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > I'm having trouble with a machine I originally partitioned fairly > > evenly. I need to turn it into a fileserver with as much disk space as > > possible allocated to one partition. Currently I have 10 gigs of free > > space on /usr, 10 gigs of free space on /var and 8 gigs of free space on > > /home. I was wondering if there's an easy painless way of reclaiming > > the free space these partitions aren't using by resizing them and > > putting that space onto one fileserver partition like /fs or some such > > thing. Preferably without having to back everything up on separate > > media and wipe the drive and restore the filesystems on a different > > partitioning scheme *shudder*. > > > > I'm running Debian testing. > > You could try resize2fs (read the manpage, you'll need a bootdisk with a copy > of it) but it doesn't automate resizing the partiton, sou you''ll have to do > that with fdisk. > > If you're not using ext2 or perhaps ext3, tough luck. > > I suguest you backup your system, repartition and restore. > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech -- ************************************************* * Matt Roper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * * http://www.mattrope.com * * PGP Key: http://www.mattrope.com/mattrope.asc * ************************************************* _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
