Once upon a time, Marco Shaw <[email protected]> said: > Well, as my luck would have it, I need to resize /, and my layout is > /dev/sda1 /boot > /dev/sda2 / > /dev/sda3 swap > /dev/sda4 Extended > /dev/sda5 /home > > (I didn't build it!)
If swap is about the same size as the amount you need to add to /, you could delete the existing swap partition, resize / to fill that space, and then add swap in the new space. > >From what I can remember, using cpio was more robust/trustworthy than > tar, because I'll need to backup /home and restore it after... If you have SELinux enabled, make sure you use something that handles extended attributes. I don't remember if cpio does; tar has an --xattrs option to include them. -- Chris Adams <[email protected]> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
