Changing partition sizes
Kurt Granroth
plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Wed, 23 May 2001 11:48:11 -0700
Kurt Granroth wrote:
> > [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[snip]
Erg.. I didn't notice that you have two different disks. In that
case, no, I don't think there is an easy way to do your expansion
other than with the symlink hack.
The LVM code *will* do disk spanning, but that requires some
reformatting and the like and you already said that you can't backup
your work.
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