Re: Can I resize my partition after installation ?

2007-06-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 12:59:25AM -0400, Andrew Barr wrote: On Jun 21, 2007, at 12:07 AM, arijit sarkar wrote: So, can i resize my /home now to make space for second root. or I have to reformat and do it again. Sure you can. Boot from a rescue CD, or better yet, a Debian or Ubuntu live

Re: Can I resize my partition after installation ?

2007-06-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 09:37:54AM +0530, arijit sarkar wrote: I have debian installed on my 160gb hdd. [NOTE: this is the exact disk structure] / - 7gb swap - 2.5gb /home - rest 144gb now I feel, I could have used that space to install another linux OS for testing/exploring. so i want

Re: Can I resize my partition after installation ?

2007-06-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrew Barr wrote: On Jun 21, 2007, at 12:07 AM, arijit sarkar wrote: So, can i resize my /home now to make space for second root. or I have to reformat and do it again. Sure you can. Boot from a rescue CD, or better yet, a Debian or Ubuntu live CD, and use parted or one of it's GUI

Re: Can I resize my partition after installation ?

2007-06-21 Thread arijit sarkar
On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 10:08 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: Yes. However, please look into swithing to LVM. This will help greatly with situations such as you are encountering now. Regards, -Roberto thanks for all the suggestions. Since I'm switched to linux just recently (it's

Re: Can I resize my partition after installation ?

2007-06-21 Thread Andrew J. Barr
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Can I resize my partition after installation ?

2007-06-20 Thread arijit sarkar
I have debian installed on my 160gb hdd. [NOTE: this is the exact disk structure] / - 7gb swap - 2.5gb /home - rest 144gb now I feel, I could have used that space to install another linux OS for testing/exploring. so i want to know, is it possible to resize /home now? i want to make my hdd

Re: Can I resize my partition after installation ?

2007-06-20 Thread Andrew Barr
On Jun 21, 2007, at 12:07 AM, arijit sarkar wrote: So, can i resize my /home now to make space for second root. or I have to reformat and do it again. Sure you can. Boot from a rescue CD, or better yet, a Debian or Ubuntu live CD, and use parted or one of it's GUI frontends to reconfigure