Changing partition sizes

[Kevin Buettner]

On May 23,  9:53am, 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?

You're asking for /usr to span disks.  In order to do so, you'll need
to use RAID-0 or LVM.

Kevin