Filesystem fun

[Entelin]

What you want is the program "parted"
http://www.gnu.org/manual/parted-1.6.1/ . Backup your data before you
use it. However if I were you I would either redo the whole hard drive
or take that 6 gigs, repartition it and mount it on /usr and /var
depending on your use. 

My guess is that your hda2 is mounted at / correct? and you dont have
anything split up anywhere? If thats the case I would take that and
split it into a .5 gig partition that you mount at /var, and take the
remaining 5.5 and mount it on /usr.

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I typed a bunch of stuff below this line before I realised you were only
using two partitions not two hard drives. However I will keep it there
as it might be useful to someone.

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You would need to configure RAID level 0, you can do that eather with a
hardware controller (which you probably dont have) or linux software
RAID. I have personaly never done it because when I have wanted to do it
its always been with a hardware raid controller. However keep in mind
that RAID 0 will decrease your reliability due to the fact that if you
loose one drive your whole system is hosed.

For info on RAID goto www.tldp.org there are numerous documents there on
the subject.

However under linux you normaly don't need to do this like you are
saying because you can simply mount the additional data in a different
location to free up that space on your other drive.

On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 10:40, Robert.Wultsch@asu.edu wrote:
> More fun from me on filesystems. I am trying to ditched vfat, but as i do not
> have another unix box in the house and do not have the first clue about how to
> get samba working (that will wait for another day) I am copying my 6 gigs of
> stuff into a vfat partition, and then copying it into a ext3 partition.
> 
> How do I get me hda2 (ext3, 20 gigs) to eat my hda3 (vfat, 6 gigs) so that it is
> one big hda2 (ext3, 26 gigs)?
> 
> Or would this be easier with reiser or xfs?
> 
> Thanks for any possible help...
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