Re: Size of default partition with d-i beta3
Brent Bailey wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 17:26, richard lyons wrote:
>> On Friday 21 May 2004 16:52, Brent Bailey wrote:
>>> A couple of weeks ago I installed debian sarge with d-i beta3. I
>>> kept with the default partition sizes given with the multi-user
>>> set-up, which set up / with 135468 K on a 80G drive. Now / is
>>> full, and every other partition is hardly used. I can't mount a
>>> cdrom to burn a copy of my files from home that I need. All
>>> partitions are ext3. Is there a way to add more space to /
>>> (preferably from /home) without having to re-format both
>>> partitions?
>>
>> What is your present partitioning scheme? What do df and mount say?
>>
> df:
> /dev/sda1 135468 134724 0 100% /
> tmpfs 452892 0 452892 0% /dev/shm
> /dev/sda5 4807056 1533208 3029664 34% /usr
> /dev/sda6 2885780 863160 1876032 32% /var
> /dev/sda7 15022 1060 13161 8% /tmp
> /dev/sda8 68571736 5397808 59690636 9% /home
>
>
> mount:
> /dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
> proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
> /dev/sda5 on /usr type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/sda6 on /var type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/sda7 on /tmp type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/sda8 on /home type ext3 (rw)
> usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
> none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
>
>> --
>> richard
Have a look at parted: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/
It might be what you are looking for.
Another thing that makes live easy in such a situation is if
you had installed LVM. It's designed for these kind of situations.
Regards,
Benedict
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