On Thursday 18 December 2003 22:25, Tom Emerson wrote
On Thursday 18 December 2003 8:09 pm, Linuxjim wrote:
Hi everyone,
Can I resize my / patition?
I'll get back to that, but first...
Can I unmount a running / partition?
no -- the dos/microsoft equivalent would be akin to pulling drive-C out of your system "while it was on", which as you can imagine, would be disasterous. HOWEVER, you can unmount it if you boot from the "rescue" portion of the installation CD [actually, it won't, by default, get mounted in the first place...] so what you want to do is possible, and you don't even need to use a "dos" partitioner/sizer
No, I would not do that except by booting from a CD to run that program, but am still concerned Suse would not like the change without knowing about it first.
You said that you installed this on a large [100gb] drive and basically want to make things "easier to manage" -- generally, creating more partitions makes things harder, so I'm not sure what you'll gain by this. One important question is "what other partitions did you set aside" [and how large are they?] By this, I mean, "did you create a seperate partition and mount it as /home, /var, /opt, or any other similar top-level directory?" These are the usual suspects for mounting "on a seperate drive" [partition], and making an error in judgement as to the size needed will be annoying to say the least.
Suse is installed on hdb with two partitions, native, and swap. I would like to have one or more others just for what you are suggesting.
One thing you might want to take a look at is the LVM -- Logical Volume Manager. This lets you break up a larger disk into smaller "virtual" drives which you can resize, append, and generally mess-with to your heart's content. [you can even use this to combine two or more smaller drives into one larger "virtual" drive]
I'm not sure what you mean by "virtual" drive. When you "break up" a larger drive, does this effectively "resize" the partition (make hdb1 and hdb2 for example) or is virtual something else?