Hi Prash,I have not read the thread from the beguinning, but if I understood you correctly you are willing to give up "D" (or /dev/hda7, if you prefer)to linux completly. One easy way to (maybe) solve your problem was to reuse /dev/hda7 as a ext2/ext3 partition and put it to use carrying for instance all you have in /usr/local or even /usr. See what I mean?
You would need to 1 - fdisk /dev/hda to change /dev/hda7 type from ntfs/fat to Linux 2 - mkext2.fs (mkfs.ext2?) or mkfs.ext2 -j (for ext3) 3 - mount /dev/hda7 as /mnt/new_drive (for instance) 4 - copy your "/whatever" contents to /mnt/new_drive 5 - umount /mnt/new_drive 6 - edit fstab to add "/mnt/hda7 /whatever" 7 - rm -rf /whatever/* 8 - mount "/whatever" Here when I talk about "whatever" is /usr/local or /usr, for instanceDo you think this will do the trick for you? No need to merge partitions this way.
Hope this helps, Joao Clemente Prashanth Narayanan wrote:
thanks for the responses! i can find out the exact name of the partition (i am pretty sure it is /dev/hda7). here is teh reason for all this: my /usr/local is going to run out ofspace pretty soon (and by that i mean that my root partition, "/", currently mounted on /dev/hda5 is nearly full: 83%) and i haven't eveninstalled half the software i want! boo hoo!!! now my question is actually this: i have already mounted the d:drive and i can write to it if i want to - but this is not what i want. i actually want to increase the root partition size and "merge" these two partitions. maybe i am asking for too much (or maybe there is a workaround) bottomline: i need more space on "/" (root of linux installation) or a workaround where i could somehow virtually "join" two partitions so debian would treat them as one big "/" folder. any pointers? tia, -prash.