[ale] Oops - Want to rearrange two partitions

[John Mills]

Danny -

None of the partitions on the system is anything like full, so I can 
easily back stuff up and move it around.

Thanks for the detail. I'll go get my asbestos gloves and welding mask.

 - Mills

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Danny Cox wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 12:46 -0500, John Mills wrote:

> <snip>
> > How might I resize partitions to move an extra GB from into /var without 
> > trashing my installation, else move it and recover its space?
> <snip>

> 	If you have room to copy the contents, either in /opt or over the
> network, or even onto a DVD, you're in luck.
> 
> 	Reboot, and at the GRUB prompt, enter "linux single" (without the
> quotes).  This will bring you up on the console in single user mode, and
> all local disks mounted.
> 
> 	Make a copy of /home and /var somewhere.
> 
> 	Unmount /home and /var.
> 
> 	Fiddle with the partitions using fdisk, sfdisk, or your favorite tool
> to get hdb7 and hdb8 to the sizes you want.
> 
> 	You may need to reboot here.  Fdisk tries very hard to inform the
> kernel of new partitions, but sometimes, it fails.  Remember to boot
> into single user mode.
> 
> 	Create your preferred filesystem on hdb7 and hdb8.
> 
> 	If you change the filesystem type, edit /etc/fstab to reflect the
> change.
> 
> 	Remount them, and copy them back.
> 
> 	Stand well back, and it should come up fine.