Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2974 mails)

[Mark.Daglish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Quoting Chris Reeves <chris.reeves@xxxxxxxxx>:

> O'Bieito wrote:
> >
> > And now I remember another question... anyone has resized
> > their partitions sometime ? I find now 250 MB is not going
> > to be enough for /home soon, and would like a hint, or a
> > nice link to a description of the process. I have plenty of
> > space both in / and /usr.
>
> I know what you mean, I just increased my /home from 1GB to 3GB, and
> it's currently sitting at 2GB used...
>
> Your best option here for rearranging partitions is to invest in a
copy
> of the latest Partition Magic (a commercial, DOS based program). It is
> absolutely fantastic and the latest version can handle ext2.

I would also recommend Partition Magic as being very useful in
this type of situation.
>
> If you want a rather ugly solution, you can create a new /home
directory
> in / and copy the contents over (you'll have to do a number of
renaming
> operations to do this). Then you'll have to find something useful to
do
> with that now empty partition.
>
Another possibility I use when having to store large data sets
prior and post analysis is to create new "data" partitions under root
often on another hard disk.  Usually I create whole partitions
mounted as /data1, /data2 ... and so on.
Within each data partition you can then create directories for any
user needing extra space.  Then put a symbolic link in the users
home directory to this new extra disk space.

Hope this is of some use.

Mark

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