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MagusWizardo
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 Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 7:19 am Post subject: Repartitioning |
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My harddrive at the moment is set up like so:
1GB /boot (ext3)
1GB swap
4.7GB FAT32
8.3 GB unpartitioned
Rest of 30 GB / (ReiserFS)
The /, Swap, and FAT32 share an extended partition. This is all because I recently deleted my NTFS.
Needless to say, it's a mess - and I've been running out of space. I want to change it to be the following:
1GB /boot (ext3)
1GB swap
3GB /home (ReiserFS)
Rest / (ReiserFS)
I can easily create /home and a new swap onto the unpartioned space and then nuke the old swap, but is it possible to resize / and remove the extended partition without nuking it? |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 10:11 am Post subject: |
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MagusWizardo,
You should be able to move your system into 8.3Gb easily and make /home the 30Gb. That saves resizing things. 8.3Gb will be cramped for larger builds, e.g. Open Office, but there are ways round that.
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boogerman
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| I'm curious as to why you want 1GB for /boot. I have 200MB and I use something like 5% of it. You might consider putting some of that space somewhere else unless you have some special need for that much space there. |
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MagusWizardo
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | MagusWizardo,
You should be able to move your system into 8.3Gb easily and make /home the 30Gb. That saves resizing things. 8.3Gb will be cramped for larger builds, e.g. Open Office, but there are ways round that. |
The problem with this is that it doesn't fit well with how I use my system. My / is currently 8.1 GB (the 30GB is my whole harddrive), and I had to delete some stuff recently, and unmerge some less necesary programs, because I couldn't write to any files (I noticed it first with /etc/portage/package.*) for a lack of space. I also plan to install some games, which would take up even more space (I think that a full install of BG2 for example is ~4GB), and I tend to only work with small files in my home folder (at the moment it's mostly text and wordprocessing, with a couple of presentations and alot of photos thrown in) - a few GB there is more than enough for me.
But I've been thinking; I've now gotten my total usage down to 5.5 GB... are any filesystems easily resizable (without data loss)? If there are any, I could do some juggling quite easily, and I don't specifically need ReiserFS for anything.
| boogerman wrote: | | I'm curious as to why you want 1GB for /boot. I have 200MB and I use something like 5% of it. You might consider putting some of that space somewhere else unless you have some special need for that much space there. |
Mostly just me being pedantic. I like having partitions with round numbers of GBs. |
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NeddySeagoon
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MagusWizardo,
Is 1/16Gb a round number or even 1/32Gb?
Both are adequate for /boot
There are tools around that claim to change partiton size without damaging your data.
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