Brent Bailey wrote: > On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 17:26, richard lyons wrote: >> On Friday 21 May 2004 16:52, Brent Bailey wrote: >>> A couple of weeks ago I installed debian sarge with d-i beta3. I >>> kept with the default partition sizes given with the multi-user >>> set-up, which set up / with 135468 K on a 80G drive. Now / is >>> full, and every other partition is hardly used. I can't mount a >>> cdrom to burn a copy of my files from home that I need. All >>> partitions are ext3. Is there a way to add more space to / >>> (preferably from /home) without having to re-format both >>> partitions? >> >> What is your present partitioning scheme? What do df and mount say? >> > df: > /dev/sda1 135468 134724 0 100% / > tmpfs 452892 0 452892 0% /dev/shm > /dev/sda5 4807056 1533208 3029664 34% /usr > /dev/sda6 2885780 863160 1876032 32% /var > /dev/sda7 15022 1060 13161 8% /tmp > /dev/sda8 68571736 5397808 59690636 9% /home > > > mount: > /dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) > proc on /proc type proc (rw) > sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) > devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) > tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) > /dev/sda5 on /usr type ext3 (rw) > /dev/sda6 on /var type ext3 (rw) > /dev/sda7 on /tmp type ext3 (rw) > /dev/sda8 on /home type ext3 (rw) > usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) > none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) > >> -- >> richard
Have a look at parted: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/ It might be what you are looking for. Another thing that makes live easy in such a situation is if you had installed LVM. It's designed for these kind of situations. Regards, Benedict -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
