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On Thursday 16 November 2006 19:55, jakommo wrote: |
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> Hi Listmembers, |
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> I have a problem the / Partition on my system is to smal, is there a |
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> save way to resize it? |
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> I know mounting other partitions to e.g. /usr will help but the / is |
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> only 4,6G so it will help only temporarily. |
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You have a tricky problem. Any partition hosting an ext2/3 or reiserfs |
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filesystame can be reduced, but it has to be unmounted first. The |
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partition in question is /, which cannot be unmounted in a running |
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system. |
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So, you have to boot off a LiveCD. teh gentoo installer gives you such |
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an environment, so does knoppix or ubuntu, or even (god forbid!) red |
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hat. You need to use the filesystem resizing tool, it's e2online (or |
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maybe ext2online) or resize_reiserfs to reduce the filesystem to an |
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appropriate value, then use fdisk to resize the partition to the same |
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size as the filesystem. This will free up the unused space after the |
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partition in quetion so you can do something else with it. Just |
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remember that this will usually renumber partitions between the new one |
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and the end of the disk and you have to account for that in /etc/fstab. |
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So if you reduce /dev/hda5 and create a new partition in the free space, |
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then whatever you used to call /dev/hda6 is now probably |
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called /dev/hda7 |
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There are graphical tools around to make this simpler - I believe |
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partition magic has some ext2/3 support and gparted can do cool things. |
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I can't tell you if they are good or bad as I don't use them (I'm a |
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command line junkie :-) |
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alan |
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