On Sunday 08 February 2004 23:55, Rob Blomquist wrote: > On Sunday 08 February 2004 7:38 am, Marc Resnick droned on: > > The question: I want to add more space to my Linux partition. I > > used PartitionMagic to make my Windows XP NTFS partition smaller, > > but could only add that space to the overall Extended Partition, > > not the separate Linux space. I therefore suspect that there is > > some way through Linux to do this. Any help would be appreciated. > > You really don't need to expand your linux partition. I am assuming > that you have a partition available for use. > > All you need to do is move some part of it away from /. Depending > on what's big this could be /usr. /usr/local, /home, the really > hard ones to move are /bin, /sbin, /boot, /etc and so on as they > are vital to how linux runs all the time. > > Pick one, set up mounting and formatting that partition as > /mnt/temp, not as the folder you want to move it to, test the > partition as workable by copying stuff to and from it without > errors, then drop out of X, and log in as root, and move the files. > Then unmount the folder, and edit fstab to point from /mnt/temp to > /etc, for example. > > Voila, free space! > If you want a detailed description of how I tackled such a move, look at the 'drive full' section on http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/ProBlems
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