Hi, There is a 5th Alternative: parted GNU's Parted provides the ability to simply and reliably create, copy, and resize FAT and Ext2 Partitions. The latest series 1.6x also provides support for Sun, MIPS, DOS, BSD, Mac Tables, and ReiserFS. http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/ The interface is text based but it works and that is the most important thing. Hope this helps. Q On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 07:47, Anders Johansson wrote:

On Thursday 26 September 2002 05.05, robert73 wrote:

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Hello All

Ive been away from Linux for about a year but I made it back and purchaced and installed SUSE 80 professional. Its a very very nice looking system. My problem is that I seemed to have screwed up the sizing of partitions. I have lots of free space but somehow managed to make / too small (go figgure)

;-)

I dont know what I was thinking... is there anyway I can fix this (reclaim space from another partition)?? I have nothing on /work

If I have to re install I will but would rather not the /oracle_store is on another drive and I have no data on it...

Ideas

Thanks rob

Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb5 1028060 920624 107436 90% / /dev/hdb6 514028 36672 477356 8% /boot /dev/hdb11 10241084 33008 10208076 1% /home /dev/hdb12 5124536 32840 5091696 1% /local /dev/hdb9 5124536 471364 4653172 10% /opt /dev/hda2 9486084 72432 9413652 1% /oracle_store /dev/hdb7 5124536 888752 4235784 18% /usr /dev/hdb8 5124536 107432 5017104 3% /var /dev/hdb13 6891636 32840 6858796 1% /work

You can resize partitions, but your partition table is a little chaotic so it's a little tricky to say just how you'd do it. There are a number of options open to you

The simplest risk-nothing way would be to use the symlink trick. Pick a directory on the / partition that uses up a lot of data, copy it to a partition with a lot of space available (such as /work for instance), delete the directory from / and symlink it to the new directory on /. Depending on which directory you move you may have to do this from the rescue system.

Another option is to use LVM. With this you could merge the / and /work partitions and make them look like one partition to the system. Boot from the rescue system, copy all data from / to a temporary storage (on /oracle_store for example), create an lvm partition on / and /work and copy everything back to the new partition.

A third option is to actually resize partitions, but you can only use space physically adjacent to the original partition, so with your layout you're going to need to move things around.

And finally the fourth option, as you mentioned, is to reinstall and get it right from the beginning :)

It can be done, but you'd have to decide which method you want to use. Then, the exact details depend on where your partitions are (fdisk should tell you the starting and ending cylinders of each partition) and also which file systems you use for each partition.

Let the list know how you want to work this, and I'm sure someone here can help you

regards Anders

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I took a closer look at what was on my / partition and noticed I had a 500+M file (oracle distribution) sitting on /tmp so I moved the file and now my sizes look like rob@Nicole:/> df -m Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb5 1004 370 634 37% / /dev/hdb6 502 36 466 8% /boot /dev/hdb11 10001 1760 8241 18% /home /dev/hdb12 5004 33 4972 1% /local /dev/hdb9 5004 463 4542 10% /opt /dev/hda2 9264 71 9193 1% /oracle_store /dev/hdb7 5004 937 4067 19% /usr /dev/hdb8 5004 118 4886 3% /var /dev/hdb13 6730 33 6698 1% /work shmfs 251 0 250 0% /dev/shm So I think Ill be ok with this. I was going to use the parted solution but I dont think I need to http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/ thanks for the help and Ideas Rob Anders Johansson wrote:

On Thursday 26 September 2002 05.05, robert73 wrote:

...

Hello All

Ive been away from Linux for about a year but I made it back and purchaced and installed SUSE 80 professional. Its a very very nice looking system. My problem is that I seemed to have screwed up the sizing of partitions. I have lots of free space but somehow managed to make / too small (go figgure)

;-)

I dont know what I was thinking... is there anyway I can fix this (reclaim space from another partition)?? I have nothing on /work

If I have to re install I will but would rather not the /oracle_store is on another drive and I have no data on it...

Ideas

Thanks rob

Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb5 1028060 920624 107436 90% / /dev/hdb6 514028 36672 477356 8% /boot /dev/hdb11 10241084 33008 10208076 1% /home /dev/hdb12 5124536 32840 5091696 1% /local /dev/hdb9 5124536 471364 4653172 10% /opt /dev/hda2 9486084 72432 9413652 1% /oracle_store /dev/hdb7 5124536 888752 4235784 18% /usr /dev/hdb8 5124536 107432 5017104 3% /var /dev/hdb13 6891636 32840 6858796 1% /work

You can resize partitions, but your partition table is a little chaotic so it's a little tricky to say just how you'd do it. There are a number of options open to you

The simplest risk-nothing way would be to use the symlink trick. Pick a directory on the / partition that uses up a lot of data, copy it to a partition with a lot of space available (such as /work for instance), delete the directory from / and symlink it to the new directory on /. Depending on which directory you move you may have to do this from the rescue system.

Another option is to use LVM. With this you could merge the / and /work partitions and make them look like one partition to the system. Boot from the rescue system, copy all data from / to a temporary storage (on /oracle_store for example), create an lvm partition on / and /work and copy everything back to the new partition.

A third option is to actually resize partitions, but you can only use space physically adjacent to the original partition, so with your layout you're going to need to move things around.

And finally the fourth option, as you mentioned, is to reinstall and get it right from the beginning :)

It can be done, but you'd have to decide which method you want to use. Then, the exact details depend on where your partitions are (fdisk should tell you the starting and ending cylinders of each partition) and also which file systems you use for each partition.

Let the list know how you want to work this, and I'm sure someone here can help you

regards Anders

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