Re: Poorly Sized Partitions

2001-07-31 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
Assuming you have a tape drive, and you can take the machine offline, use dump/restore. In case you have no tape drive on the net, but a spare partition, you can dump to that. The problem I see is taking the the partitions offline while you copy them. Gene Grimm wrote: > A while back, we had

Poorly Sized Partitions

2001-07-31 Thread Gene Grimm
A while back, we had a mail server crash and when hurrying to rebuild the server, the tech who did the work did not size the /home and /var partitions adequately. We essentially need to swap the space which those partitions occupy. Is there any proper way of doing this with the ext2 file systems b