Re: Resize partitions urgent help

[Edvard Majakari <edvard.majakari@staselog.com>]

Vijaya S <vijaya@picopeta.com> writes:

> Hi all,
> I have a server with the following structure.
>
> # df -hT
> Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda2  unknown    8.3G  399M  7.5G   5% /
> tmpfs        tmpfs    252M     0  252M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda3     ext3     19G  1.8G   16G  11% /usr
> /dev/hda5     ext3    9.2G  1.9G  6.9G  22% /var
> /dev/hda6     ext3     12G  1.4G  9.1G  13% /home
> /dev/hda7     ext3     19G   19G     0 100% /debian
> /dev/hda8     ext3    6.9G   33M  6.6G   1% /work
>
> The /dev/hda7 has been utilized 100% so i would like to increase  it to
> 22GB and /work to 2.6GB
> Is it possible? If so how do i do it without data loss or
> undestructively?

You might want to check package 'convertfs' and turn your filesystem(s) to
reiserfs. I did exactly that - on live fs - and didn't have any problems
whatsoever.  YMMV, though.

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