Hello there, On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:08:10AM +0200, QBA wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have a problem because in a few days will have no free space > > on one of my partitons. I mounted on it /var directory and gave > > only 150MB for use. But now (after 3 months) I have only 21MB free. > > Because I also have one almost unused partition I thought that maybe > > I could resize these 2 partitions. Is any tool available (like partition > > magic for winshit) that can do that (without loss of my data)? > > Thanks for help, > > Have you been using apt-get? If you haven't done so already, you may be > able to reclaim some space with "apt-get clean". apt-get keeps all the > packages it downloads in /var/cache/apt/archives. They can add up after > a while. > > If that's not what's eating up your space, you may have luck with parted > or 'gparted'. I'd back up the whole space (if not your whole disk) > first. If you have enough space on another partition, you can use tar > or cpio or 'cp -a' to copy all of the contents. Can't give you any help > with parted (others have reported success). parted works well, have used it. Only it can't move beginnings of partitions, so if you want to do that you'll have to figure out how to move the contents of the following partition to another one, delete the following one and extend the one you want to resize. I'll leave this as exercise to the reader. If you have problems, you could contact me again. AFAIK, partition magic can also resize linux-partitions, so if you have a bootable disk with it on it, you should be able to use, but I have no experience with it. Regards, Daniel
