[H-GEN] altering disk partitions

[Steven McIntyre]

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On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 05:31:10PM +1000, Dale Stewart wrote:
> /dev/hdd5               845256    797612      4708 100% /usr
> 
> As you can see /usr is full - how do I re-allocate space from say /home 
> to /usr. I have seen it done on solaris at work - but for the life of me 
> I cant remember how it was done.

  This method is clumsy, but good when you are desperate.  Creating
a symbolic link that points to a location on /home and moving 
part of /usr to this location can allevate the lack of storage on 
/usr.

  But this method is a bit on the "ugly" side.  Think of it as a 
"hack" to be used when desperate and other courses of action are
so drastic; making this option look attractive.  Definitely do this
in single user mode (I would not be attempting this in multi-user
mode).

  Alternatively Partition Magic 7.0 Pro will allow you to resize
Ext2 partitions (along with almost everything else).  This option
allows you to quickly resize various partitions and avoid this
problem.  

  BTW: As I discovered, Linux fdisk doesn't not allow you to create
more than 16 partitions on any one drive.  Just thought I'd mention
that in passing.

-- 

Steven McIntyre
stev at uq.net.au

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