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Re: Resizing ext2 filesystems



Max dixit:
~> I have a problem in that I'm quickly running out of space in /usr but
~> I have tons of space left in /home.  Here's what df shows:
~> 
~> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
~> /dev/sda1               497667     35357    436608   7% /
~> /dev/sda5               497667    385312     86653  82% /var
~> /dev/sda6              2478138   2271514     78508  97% /usr
~> /dev/sda7              4616953    643170   3734818  15% /home
~> 
~> Obviously, I didn't estimate the filesystem sizes correctly to begin
~> with.  At this poit, does anyone know of a way to resize them so that
~> some of the space from /dev/sda7 can be added to /dev/sda6?  I have
~> heard of "resize2fs" but it appears that it's not available other than
~> as part of Partition Magic.  Is there anything else out there?

How about the following:  tarzip /home to a tape drive (like iomega zip) and
then repartition it ... one to untarunzip /home, the other one you might call
it /usr2 and symlink it to /usr ... not sure this would work, just wait until
someone else comments on it.

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