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	resize mount points by Anil Saini :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message i install red-hat 9 on my machine..with manually setting the partitions /home 2gb /boot 500mb /var 3gb /tmp 1gb / 10gb now i want to resize my home partition to 5gb... is it possible to resize it without installing it again.... Anil Saini System Administrator
	Re: resize mount points by Jerry Feldman-2 :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message On Sat, 3 May 2008 04:21:49 -0700 (PDT) Anil Saini <anil.pilani@...> wrote: > > i install red-hat 9 on my machine..with manually setting the partitions > > /home 2gb > /boot 500mb > /var 3gb > /tmp 1gb > / 10gb > > now i want to resize my home partition to 5gb... > is it possible to resize it without installing it again.... Yes, but it is best to do it from a standalone environment. I recommend downloading and buring a Knoppix CD (or DVD). http://www.knoppix.org/ or a gparted live CD (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php) On the knoppix live CD you can use the QTparted utility. This has a similar interface to Partition Magic. Both use the underlying gparted libraries. There are some caveats depending on how you laid out your system. Remember that their is a maximum of 4 physical primary partitions on PC hardware. On Linux these are labeled as hda[1-4]. Where hda is the first physical disk. (Newer systems use the sd instead of hd. You can have a large number of logical partitions. Normally, I just set up my HD a 1 large extended primary partition, so that every partition I use is a logical partition (hda5 through hdan). BTW: Red Hat 9 is ancient. -- -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@...> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@... http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
	Re: resize mount points by Jarod Wilson :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 08:23 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: > BTW: Red Hat 9 is ancient. Yeah, Red Hat will be 9 releases past Red Hat Linux 9 in just a few days... Speaking of Fedora 9 and veering back to tie in to the original question, one of the new features finally in the Fedora installer is partition resizing at installation time (including both native linux fs resizing and ntfs resizing). -- Jarod Wilson jarod@... -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@... http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
	Re: resize mount points by Kristian Erik Hermansen :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Jarod Wilson <jarod@...> wrote: > question, one of the new features finally in the Fedora installer is > partition resizing at installation time (including both native linux fs > resizing and ntfs resizing). Fedora didn't have installation partition resizing already!?!?!? SuSE/Mandrake both had it in like 2001! Damn :-P -- Kristian Erik Hermansen -- "Clever ones don't want the future told. They make it." -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@... http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
	Re: resize mount points by Jarod Wilson :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 11:22 -0700, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: > On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Jarod Wilson <jarod@...> wrote: > > question, one of the new features finally in the Fedora installer is > > partition resizing at installation time (including both native linux fs > > resizing and ntfs resizing). > > Fedora didn't have installation partition resizing already!?!?!? > SuSE/Mandrake both had it in like 2001! Damn :-P Yeah, I know, that's why I said "finally"... :\ However, one of the barriers to adding it was ntfs support with a license acceptable to Fedora, which only recently happened. -- Jarod Wilson jarod@... -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@... http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss