Partition Magic..usage

[chuck77]

I am trying to merge 2 existing partition into one partition using Partition Magic Pro 7 DOS-based.
(redhat 6.2)

Let say merging /home and /tmp together as /home
Is it possible to do..tat ??

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

I'm reasonably sure that one-step mergeing is not supported for ext2 as of yet - unless it was new in 7.0 (you can do it for M$ type partitions however). You probably have to do it by resizing one down and the other up and copying the files across to a temporary directory (e.g. /tmp2) then unmounting the unwanted partition, rename the /tmp2 to to /tmp, and remove the line from /etc/fstab that mounts /tmp as a separate partition. How easy it is depends how full the partitions are.

Regards

 

[chuck77]

Hi. If i were to downsize /tmp and unallocate the unwanted partition. Can i add the unallocated partition to /home ?
if yes..how ?

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

You'd just resize the /home to grab the released space, assuming the two partitions were physically next to each other of course. I can't give the exact syntax on the 'dos' version as mostly I've done that sort of thing thru the gui - attaching the drive (temporarily) to a win system first. Its difficult to comment without more info on the partition layout, sizes, etc.

Regards