Jim wrote:
> I currently have the following partitions:
>
> [farli@tesla farli]$ df
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 1718336 246440 1384608 15% /
> /dev/hdb1 5823 1085 4438 20% /boot
> /dev/hda6 1154808 128120 968024 12% /home
> /dev/hdb3 1898964 1327036 475464 74% /usr
>
> I am soon going to upgrade from Mandrake 7.2 to 8.0. Is there an easy way
> to expand the /usr partition at the expense of either the root partition
> or the home partition?
Yes, you can. The basic procedure would be to shrink the /home
filesystem using ext2resize[1]. Then, need to shrink /dev/hda6 to the
same size using fdisk. Then, increase /dev/hdb3 using fdisk.
Finally, resize /usr using ext2resize.
There is also a program called "parted" that may do all of that in one
step[2]. I have never used it, though, so I can't comment.
As you can imagine, this is a very delicate operation that could make
you lose quite a bit of data if done wrong.
You might want to strongly consider using a symlink hack. Just make a
directory like /home/local and create a symlink from /usr/local to
/home/local (for instance)
[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/)
[2] http://www.gnu.org/software/parted
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