On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:57:21 +0000, Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > > The answer remains the same. > diskdrake can shrink /home for you. It will probably have to be unmounted at > the time which means you will have to be logged in as root or else you will > not be able to unmount /home. (Or boot up with MandrakeMove) > > The space freed up by shrinking /home is not going to be contiguous with your > current '/' partition, so the easiest way to make use of it is to mount part > of the file system on it as I described. > I suggested /usr because there is quite a lot of files in there, but you could > just as easily use /var or something. > > PS: I suggest backing up /home first. I would hate to be accused of making you > trash all your data. > > BTW: You only appear to be using 16GB out of an 80GB drive. I hope you are not > wasting that space with another Operating System?
Thanks, Derek and Mikkel. I shall wait for Mandrake 10.2 and then, during the installation process of it, I will choose a / partition of 10GB. No, no, my 80GB disk is only used for Mandrake. I have a second disk of 20GB for MS Windows. Paul
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