Re: Poorly Sized Partitions

[Sanjeev Gupta <ghane@dotxtra.com>]

Assuming you have a tape drive, and you can take the machine offline, 
use dump/restore.  In case you have no tape drive on the net, but a 
spare partition, you can dump to that.

The problem I see is taking the the partitions offline while you copy them.

Gene Grimm wrote:

> A while back, we had a mail server crash and when hurrying to rebuild the server,
> the tech who did the work did not size the /home and /var partitions adequately.
> We essentially need to swap the space which those partitions occupy. Is there any
> proper way of doing this with the ext2 file systems being used on this server?
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