Hi Giulio, El dom, 10-07-2005 a las 16:23 +0200, antongiulio05 escribió: > in my hd I have this situation: > > windows xp || / (root debian) 7GB || swap 1.5GB || /home 20GB || freespace 27GB > > Freespace was for other distros, but with debian they are useless for me, and so I want fill free space with debian partition proportionally, to get a new situation like this: > > windows xp || / (root debian) 14GB || swap 1.5GB || /home 40GB > > I read various linux-partitioning guides and HOWTOs, but I have no idea if above scheme is feasible. > Have you any suggestions? I'm no expert but I've resized some partitions before. Choose one resizer you feel comfortable with (you can play with a few without saving the changes), making sure it supports your filesystem (there are some known problems with GNU parted, I think, and big ext2 partitions). Assuming that you use ext2 for / and /home, you'll need to do some clever rearranging (a la Sokoban) making use of the free space, because you can't move the beginning of an ext2 partition (in this case /home would be the issue). If your partitioning software can't do the clever tricks for you, I recommend the following strategy: -1) Backup. Not technically necessary. 0) Boot from a different filesystem (rescue disk, mkfs, etc.) that contains your software of choice. 1) Get rid of the swap. 2) Create the smallest partition that will accommodate all the data in /home at the very end of the freespace, copy /home there. 3) Get rid of your original /home. 4) Extend root to 14GB. 5) Create(1) swap after root. 6) Create /home after the swap using all the remaining space, and copy all data from your temporary /home at the end of freespace. 7) Remove the temporary /home (the last one) and grow the real /home to use the remaining freespace. Note 1: when I say create, don't forget to create the partition, set its type (different for swap partitions) and format it. If your repartitioning software is a bit clever you might be able to save some steps, but the instructions above should work even with the dumbest of applications. Greetings, -- Javier Kohen <jkohen@users.sourceforge.net> ICQ: blashyrkh #2361802 Jabber: jkohen@jabber.org
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