On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:01:31 +0000, Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How can I enlarge the / partition? > > diskdrake in MandrakeControlCentre>MountPoints>Partitions can resize a Linux > partition, but that assumes that you have contiguous free space available on > your drive at the end of the current partition. > > A more likely scenario is that you have space on a different hard drive, or on > a different part of your existing drive, in which case the simplest solution > is to mount part of your current file system on a new partition. > > You could for example mount /usr on a new partition. > > When you use diskdrake to create a new partition and select a mount point > which already contains files (such as /usr), then diskdrake will offer to > copy the existing files to the new partition for you. > The new partition can then be mounted without any interruption. > > Note: I am not sure if diskdrake will remove the files from the 'old' > partition in which case they will still be there and consuming space, but > will be hidden from view by the 'new' /usr partition sitting on top. > > In order to delete those files and free up the space you would have to boot > with MandrakeMove, Knoppix or some other liveCd distro and delete them.
Thanks, Derek. Probably, I was not clear enough: I have a 80GB hard disk with 5GB for /, 1GB for the Swap partition and the remaining for /home. What I am wanting is to have 10GB for /, stealing 5GB from /home. Paul
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