On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 21:48:03 +0100 Margot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
Find it yet? Or, I could have a look myself if you could tell me what the thread was called?
yup, found it, but now I remember Tom was advising it's better to just do a format and restore from backup.
I'm not too sure about that, since you would be restoring a system partition, and as Tom said, it also depends on the type of File System you are using (probably the default...Ext3?).
No idea! Where do I look to find out?
Anyway, his words quoted from the orig post:
" parted, fips, some commercial ones http://www.google.com/search?q=ext3%20shrink%20partition&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Returned quite a few hits. As I alluded to before tho, I'd delete existing partitions and re-create 'em. Specially since you can replace from backup."
That's an interesting question, tho, could you restore / from a backup? and what would you backup to, when the space used obviously would not fit on yer usual removable media type dealies.
Sounds waaay too complicated for a newbie like me! Maybe I'll just carry on as I am until I run out of space, then buy a bigger computer....
Or, is it possible to move files that I don't use very much from one partition to the other, just for storage? Archives of letters to bank manager etc., just leaving the most recent in the usual space?
Margot
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