Re: howto enlarge root partition by merging with other?

[spiegl@appl-math.tu-muenchen.de]

Hi Dieter,

> There is another - more elegant - way: since kernel 2.0.x you can
> combine two or more partitions to one big partition. I've stumbled over
> this feature while compiling a new kernel and selecting some compile
> options. Read the help of the appropriate kernel options and follow the
> links. Sorry, I can't be more specific, because my linux box is at home
> and I'm writing this from my office win95 computer (shudddddddder!!!). I
> haven't tried it by myself, so that's everything I can do for you.

I just checked into this.  It seems that it only makes sense when
those partitions are on different drives, because it's still
necessary to reformat, i.e. make a new filesystem on the combined
partition.  So, I might just as well create a new, bigger partition.

Oh, and when there are different partitions inbetween those to merge,
then it's probably useful, too.

Anyway, thanks again for the pointer.
 Andy.
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