Hi! Trying to kill the keyboard, lavoie@netcom.ca produced:
I've just bought a larger hard drive, and I'd like to devote some of the
[replacing an old drive]
new space to my SuSe Linux installation. Since I use Partition Magic to manage my partitions, I'm not sure how to do this. Partition Magic (at least the version I have) can't manage Linux partitions.
My question is, how can I resize my Linux partitions to use some of this new space?
1. On the new disk create the partitions like you want them. 2. using (cd /usr/; tar -cpSf-) | (cd /new/HD/usr/; tar -xpf-) or (cd /usr/; dump 0f -) | (cd /new/HD/usr/; restore rf -) rm /new/HD/usr/restoresymtable you copy the data from the old HD-partitions to the new (larger) ones. 3. You change /etc/fstab accordingly, run lilo if you use it, etc. (and have a rescue system at hand -- actually you could do the whole operation under a rescue system) 4. You double check that you really copied everything. 5. You reboot. Now you use the larger partitions of the new HD. (actually, you could probably just unmount the old and mount the new partition) Repeat 1-4 (followed by 5) as often as neccessary. You can recycle the space that's now free as partitions on the old HD are no longer in use. You could also use backups as intermediate steps. -Wolfgang -- PGP 2 welcome: Mail me, subject "send PGP-key". If you've nothing at all to hide, you must be boring. Unsolicited Bulk E-Mails: *You* pay for ads you never wanted. Is our economy _so_ weak we have to tolerate SPAMMERS? I guess not. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e