Kapil Khosla writes: > I have exceeded my LInux Partition space and and want to > increase the partition size now. > I have 2 windows partitions on /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2. > Is there any way of giving that space to Linux without > formatting my disk,
First, make backups of everything important! If you mean without formatting the DOS partition into something else, then you can just cp some whole directory to /dev/hda1, then mount /dev/hda1 at the directory. eg: /usr/local has 1GB of data /dev/hda1 has room for > 1GB % mount /dev/hda1 /mnt % cp -a /usr/local /mnt % # edit /etc/fstab so that you have something like: % #/dev/hda1 /usr/local vfat rw 0 2 To test things, use % mount /dev/hda1 /usr/local and see if it worked If it did, then you can do the following: % umount /usr/local % \rm -fr /usr/local % mount /usr/local If you have old windows data on /dev/hda1, it will show up on /usr/local. You can also 'mount' just a certain directory using soft links (not really mounting things), or NFS. Eg: Make a link from /usr/local to a dir on /dev/hda1: % #edit /etc/fstab like: % #/dev/hda1 /dos/c vfat rw 0 2 % mv /usr/local /usr/local.old % ln -s /dos/c/some/path /usr/local To use NFS, mount the windows partition, export a directory with /etc/exports, then mount it using NFS at some mount point (by editing /etc/fstab). It would probably be nicer if you could resize your DOS partition(s) by defragging it and resizing it using fips or Partition Magic or gpart and then making a new ext2 partition using mke2fs. One other really easy method is just to buy a new hard drive--this way, there's no messing with partitions. Andrew.
