Marco <listwo...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi all, > > I am new to gentoo and so far I really like it. But now, I am running > out of disk space on my root partition (10 GB), although I have a > rather small system with fluxbox (no KDE, GNOME,...). Thought gentoo > would not waste my resources that much. Now I am thinking about how to > resize my ext3 partitions. Bellow is the output of fdisk: > > fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Disk identifier: 0xbbc58b91 > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 1 893 7168000 1c Hidden W95 FAT32 (LBA) > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/sda2 * 893 5968 40765440 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda3 10622 19458 70975488 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) > /dev/sda5 10622 13575 23719972 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda6 13575 13581 54819 83 Linux > /dev/sda7 13582 13831 2008093+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris > /dev/sda8 13832 15077 10008463+ 83 Linux > /dev/sda9 15078 19458 35182990 83 Linux > > sda8 is my root partition and sda9 is my home partition where there is > plenty of space. Is there any safe way to resize with Linux tools? The > descriptions found on google did not help me a lot...
Try this article: http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_resizing_ext3_partitions Regards, Masood Ahmed -- Chaos is King and Magic is loose in the world.
