On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 11:13:20AM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > When I originally created my disk partitions, I figured 3GB would be > plenty for my root partition, and gave the rest of my 30GB disk over to > my /home partition. However, my root now shows 90% usage, and I'd like > to expand it -- or move my /usr area off onto another partition. Is this > possible, and if so, can somebody point me to a howto?
The easiest way is probably to put /usr somewhere else. A possible way is: make a new partition and filesystem for /usr make a directory /mnt/newusr mount the new partition at /mnt/newusr cd / find usr|cpio -pmd /mnt/newusr umount /mnt/newusr init 1 (go to single-user) cd / mv usr usr.old mkdir usr mount the new partition at /usr change /etc/fstab (optional) reboot and check that everything works (after changing partition tables, it is always a good idea to reboot to see if the system comes up correctly. If you reboot 3 months later and it doesn't work, you won't remember why) rm -rf /usr.old To resize your root partition (I tried it, and it seems to work, but I'm still not sure if I just was lucky) make sure there is room to expand (use parted to move other partitions out of the way) go single-user mount / -o ro,remount (important!) umount everything else use parted to expand the root partition (it will complain that it is in use. Ignore the complaint) when it is done, hard reset the computer (I'm not sure a clean shutdown wouldn't write to the disk with old assumptions, and with everything readonly, you should be safe) hope for the best... if /boot is on the same partition, have a boot floppy ready, just in case. Frank > > -- > Matthew Weier O'Phinney > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://matthew.weierophinney.net > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
