yuck!!! i just added a new drive to this system, and i'd like to take /dev/hda6 and "split it" between hda5 and hda7.
i'm sure parted works well, but it's kind of sad that they made it so complicated. :( at first glance, it looks really hard to understand. pete begin Matt Roper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
