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d1sturbanc3
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 Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 8:16 pm Post subject: Increasing partition size |
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When I installed gentoo, I thought I just I needed it for this one class. But when I installed gentoo, I loved it. I want increase the hard drive space that gentoo is occupying. Right now, I´m dual booting windows on one harddrive with about 50 gigs. Gentoo has the other 10 gigs.
Would it be possible to transition more harddrive space to gentoo (the / partition)? I know programs like partition magic can do something like that. Is there a better way to do it without killing everything?
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kfiaciarka
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| Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 8:50 pm Post subject: Re: Increasing partition size |
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| d1sturbanc3 wrote: | When I installed gentoo, I thought I just I needed it for this one class. But when I installed gentoo, I loved it. I want increase the harddrive space that gentoo is occupying. Right now, I´m dual booting windows on one harddrive with about 50 gigs. Gentoo has the other 10 gigs.
Would it be possible to transition more harddrive space to gentoo (the / partition)? I know programs like partition magic can do something like that. Is there a better way to do it without killing everything? |
Try resizing under windows with PQMagic. And then use free space for linux, just determine what system directory is biggest and move it onto new partition. And then mount it and add lines to fstab.
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/dev/hdb9 / reiserfs noatime,notail 0 1
/dev/hdb11 /home ext3 noatime,defaults 0 2
/dev/hdb10 /usr reiserfs notail,noatime 0 1
/dev/hdb6 /var reiserfs notail,noatime 0 1 |
And fsdisk -l | Code: |
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 1275 10241406 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 1276 14596 107000932+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5 1276 3188 15366141 83 Linux
/dev/hdb6 3189 3876 5526328+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb7 3877 5891 16185456 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb8 9951 14596 37318963+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb9 5892 6378 3911796 83 Linux
/dev/hdb10 6379 7716 10747453+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb11 7717 9950 17944573+ 83 Linux
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dobysirius
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| Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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I'm facing the same "problem", I only gave it 10 GBs and now it's pretty full.
Is it possible to resize my / partition to make it bigger? It's ReiserFS. I know there are several programs that can resize FAT partitions (that's how I cut out space for Gentoo originally), but I assume they might break the ReiserFS if they just enlarge the partition without "knowledge" of the FS.
I'd certainly prefer it than having more partitions (I already have quite a few), though, of course, that's what I'll eventually do if I can't resize. |
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kfiaciarka
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| dobysirius wrote: | I'm facing the same "problem", I only gave it 10 GBs and now it's pretty full.
Is it possible to resize my / partition to make it bigger? It's ReiserFS. I know there are several programs that can resize FAT partitions (that's how I cut out space for Gentoo originally), but I assume they might break the ReiserFS if they just enlarge the partition without "knowledge" of the FS.
I'd certainly prefer it than having more partitions (I already have quite a few), though, of course, that's what I'll eventually do if I can't resize. |
There is no other way!! This way is even safer than any other:) |
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Kurt Steiner
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| Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:41 pm Post subject: |
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| kfiaciarka wrote: | | There is no other way!! This way is even safer than any other:) |
There is always another way.  It may take more time but I think it is safer: you make backups of your systems (even if you use PM as kfiaciarka proposed make a bakup or you may cry for a long time  ), partition your disks with any tool you like (maybe fdisk) and restore your backups.
As you see the only difference is that you do not have to use commercial software... |
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d1sturbanc3
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| Thanks for the reply... I have a portable harddrive.. is it possible to just do a copy of all the data from the gentoo / directory, and putting it on my portable harddrive. Then just use PQ magic to resize windows parition... repartition everything for linux. Then restoring all the data from the / directory? I guess I'll need to put my boot partition also |
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Kurt Steiner
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 9:22 am Post subject: |
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| d1sturbanc3 wrote: | | is it possible to just do a copy of all the data from the gentoo / directory, and putting it on my portable harddrive. Then just use PQ magic to resize windows parition... repartition everything for linux. Then restoring all the data from the / directory? |
Yes it is possible just to copy your linux. You can also make archive using tar with -j (to make a *tar.bz2) or -z (*tar.gz) options - I prefer this method.  Make a backup your windows too. |
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Deathwing00
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