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ophidia
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 Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2003 10:49 pm Post subject: Can I do this, and how? |
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Well, I want to add another partition on to my current root partition to add more space. I believe I can do this, but I don't know how.
My root partition is /dev/hdb2 and the partition I want to add to it is /dev/hda1. Currently Windows resides on hda1, but, as I never use it, I want to add the 50 gig to my Gentoo installation.
I am using Reiserfs on my root.
How can I add this space onto my current partition?
Thanks!
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Sierra
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| Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 4:10 am Post subject: |
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From your post, looks like two different drives?
| Quote: | | My root partition is /dev/hdb2 and the partition I want to add to it is /dev/hda1. |
If they are adjacent partitions on the same drive, you might be able to use parted--delete one partition and resize the remaining one to use all the space. I'm not sure though--I think parted only lets you resize from the beginning?
Mandrake's DiskDrake allows resizing, but I wouldn't count on retaining any data on the partition. |
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ophidia
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| Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 4:48 am Post subject: |
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Since I only really needed the space for my home directory, I just mounted /home on it and all is good.
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| You don't mention it, but I hope you didn't just mount it. I hope you made a new filesystem on the partition first. Reason being that FAT/VFAT, etc filesystems don't handle permissions the same way as a native filesystem and are also more space wasteful. |
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