Changing partition sizes

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Author: Deepak Saxena
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Subject: Changing partition sizes
Partition Magic

~Deepak

On May 23 2001, at 09:53, Jim was caught saying:
> 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?
>
> Before you ask, no, there are no other drives, hard, CD-RW, or tape,
> available to back up the /usr partition to.
> --
> Jim
>
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