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