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is there any way to increase the size of the partition(root) 1
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I'm afraid not (unless anyone knows of a utility to do this?). What you may be able to do is to create a new, larger partition, and then copy the files from your existing root disk to the new partition. Then you can change /etc/fstab so that the root partition entry points to your new partition.<br><br>One word of caution: If you use lilo, and you don't have a seperate /boot partition, then the new partition has to start and end below cylinder 1024 on your hard disk. This is because Lilo currently needs to find boot files below this cylinder boundary. If it can't, then it can't boot. <p> <br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br>--<br>
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Hmmm,<br><br>Now I've only done this the once so..... (so don't do it in other words)<br><br>When I partitioned my hard disk using partition manager I was able to specify start and end cylinders for each partition - so it's *possible* that there's space after the end of the root partition and before the start of the next.<br><br>Question is: Can you do an extendfs in Linux? <p>Mike<br><a href=mailto:michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com>michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com</a><br><a href= Cargill's Corporate Web Site</a><br>
You can symlink subdirectories in /root to subdirectories in another filesystem, say /home (/temp is a bad choice).<br><br>If speed is a concern (it shouldn't be for /root), you can make hard links instead of symbolic links. <p>Octalman<br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br>
I'd be wary of symbolic links mixed with the root file system. If the link fails for some reason, then you've got a problem...<br><br>Mike, there's no extendfs type program for ext2 file systems. There *may* be one available for the new Reiser journaling filesystem, but I've not used that yet, so I don't know.<br><br>I think I may have read somewhere that Partition Magic 5 deals with ext2 partitions almost as well as normal "DOS"-type partitions. That might do the trick, but I'd be wary of using it. Taking multiple backups beforehand springs to mind... <p> <br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br>--<br>
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I used PM5, seems quite good. Difficult to really evaluate app like this though since you only use them once in a blue moon... <p>Mike<br><a href=mailto:michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com>michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com</a><br><a href= Cargill's Corporate Web Site</a><br>
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