On Thursday 24 July 2014 11:16:47 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > Yes, indeed. I previously complained about its partitioning with little > > capability to revise it! (I did not use LVM because it put everything in one > > big physical partition which I also did not like.) > > > > So, want to install a more recent kernel? No room. > > > > While I was able to bind /opt and /usr/local to folders on my /home partition > > (which is most all of the disk!), root obviously cannot be so bound. Must >be available to boot. (No huge loss with no /opt or local available to start > > > > So now, what can I do, short of moving everything to another disk (this is the > > one which had unwritable block which necessitated the new install!)?? > > Could I move /var like I did /opt, etc (probably a good idea) and move rootfs > > to there? Would know how to set it up in lilo but in grub? > > > > Must have at least one fully working kernel around before trying any other and cannot fulfill this at present! >> > Download, burn and boot a copy of GParted-Live[1], which is a live-cd for G= > Parted, > the partition manager. Use that to shrink your, say, home partition and > grow your root partition. > > Another alternative, if you need minimal downtime and you can unmount > hour home partition is to shrink that, create a second root partition > and copy everything onto that, adjust grub to boot the new root > partition and then delete the old one and grow your home back into the > recovered space. In other words: > > [--- root ---] [--------------------- home -----------------------] > [--- root ---] [------------- home ------------] > [--- root ---] [------------- home ------------] [--- new root ---] > *** Reboot *** > [------------- home ------------] [--- new root ---] > [----------------- home -----------------------] [--- new root ---]
Had forgotten about that. Used "partition-magic" in windows for years. Have the kde partition manager and gparted. Using to repartition and format the old disks for use as backups. One should backup first--how safe are these utilities (which would be run from the DVD or G-parted-live -- never had any problems with the old paid partition-magic, no backups back then either). Anyway, could not format any primary partitions but have logicals available for backups. I would shrink, move start of home, then move and expand everything else in current order, keeping old root, just bigger. This would be OK, safe? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/2517135.78KgTiRGBY@dovidhalevi