Partitioning help required.

[jlambden]

Hi

I'm not 100% sure that this is the correct mailing list but the USER doc does
state that help can be obtained here.

I would like some advise regarding the re-sizing of partition /home

address@hidden /]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda8             251M   52M  186M  22% /
/dev/hda1              53M  3.5M   46M   7% /boot
/dev/hda6             7.3G  6.0G 1020M  86% /home
/dev/hda5             7.3G  920M  6.0G  14% /usr
/dev/hda7             251M  104M  134M  44% /var


As you can see from fdisk -l (below) there appears to be free space on the disk
from 2068-2482 which I would like to add to the /home partition.

Is it possible to do a straight forward re-size on the /home partition.

If so will it effect the /var partition on hda7

I've looked at the parted USER help doc but the examples always seem to require
space from the partition next door and in this example the
spare space is separated from /home by the /var partion.

Any help with the exact commands would be great.

Thanks for any help

James


address@hidden /]# fdisk /dev/hda -l

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2482 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1         7     56196   83  Linux
/dev/hda2             8      2482  19880437+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5             8       971   7743298+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6           972      1935   7743298+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7          1936      1968    265041   83  Linux
/dev/hda8          1969      2001    265041   83  Linux
/dev/hda9          2002      2067    530113+  82  Linux swap
address@hidden /]# fdisk /dev/hda

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 2482.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2482 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1         7     56196   83  Linux
/dev/hda2             8      2482  19880437+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5             8       971   7743298+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6           972      1935   7743298+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7          1936      1968    265041   83  Linux
/dev/hda8          1969      2001    265041   83  Linux
/dev/hda9          2002      2067    530113+  82  Linux swap

Command (m for help): x

Expert command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2482 cylinders

Nr AF  Hd Sec  Cyl  Hd Sec  Cyl    Start     Size ID
 1 80   1   1    0 254  63    6       63   112392 83
 2 00   0   1    7 254  63 1023   112455 39760875 05
 3 00   0   0    0   0   0    0        0        0 00
 4 00   0   0    0   0   0    0        0        0 00
 5 00   1   1    7 254  63  970       63 15486597 83
 6 00   1   1  971 254  63 1023       63 15486597 83
 7 00   1   1 1023 254  63 1023       63   530082 83
 8 00   1   1 1023 254  63 1023       63   530082 83
 9 00   1   1 1023 254  63 1023       63  1060227 82

Expert command (m for help):


address@hidden /]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda8             251M   52M  186M  22% /
/dev/hda1              53M  3.5M   46M   7% /boot
/dev/hda6             7.3G  6.0G 1020M  86% /home
/dev/hda5             7.3G  920M  6.0G  14% /usr
/dev/hda7             251M  104M  134M  44% /var




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