Ionut Georgescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please send fdisk -l /dev/hda. Judging by your /etc/fstab, you can't do > anything because you have /home and /tmp between /var and /var/log. The > best you cand do is to move /tmp and /var/log to /var and extend /home > :-) > > I will describe the next steps anyway: > > First: ext3 must resized offline. Second, if you modify the partition > table while running you have to reboot anyway, because the kernel > cannot reload the partition table while the disk is being used. You can > combine these two into 2 steps: > > cp -r /var/log /home/log.bak > adjust partition table. delete the /var/log line in /etc/fstab > > reboot into single user mode > > What happens: after reboot, /dev/hda3 will be larger, but the filesystem > has not changed yet. Being in single user mode, no program is running > at all so you can just > umount /var > ext2resize /dev/hda3 > mount /var > done > > now you just need to copy log > mount -o remount,rw /home > rmdir /var/log > mv /home/log.bak /var/log > reboot
Alternatively, reinstall the whole system using Logical Volume Management (LVM), and never fiddle around with partition resizing, partition moving/copying, not even with partitions at all. Never again have to reboot for resizing your file systems, swap spaces or whatever block devices. Just call lvextend/lvreduce and resize2fs (or equivalent for your FS) after umounting the affected file systems and your done. urs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
