Re: reclaiming space from redmond!
thanks for the responses!
i can find out the exact name of the partition (i am pretty sure it is
/dev/hda7).
here is teh reason for all this: my /usr/local is going to run out of
space pretty soon (and by that i mean that my root partition, "/",
currently mounted on /dev/hda5 is nearly full: 83%) and i haven't even
installed half the software i want! boo hoo!!!
now my question is actually this: i have already mounted the d:drive
and i can write to it if i want to - but this is not what i want. i
actually want to increase the root partition size and "merge" these
two partitions.
maybe i am asking for too much (or maybe there is a workaround)
bottomline: i need more space on "/" (root of linux installation) or a
workaround where i could somehow virtually "join" two partitions so
debian would treat them as one big "/" folder.
any pointers?
tia,
-prash.
Kent West wrote:
> Wim De Smet wrote:
>
>> Okay first you need to find out which partition it is. If your drive
>> is master on the first controller it's called /dev/hda. As slave it's
>> /dev/hdb. Second controller is hdc and hdb.
>>
> Typo. Second controller is hdc and hdd.
>
>> 2) format it as another filesystem. You would do this with mkfs.fsname
>> where fsname is the name of the filesystem you want (for instance
>> reiserfs).
>>
>>
> If it's currently FAT, I think you'll need to change the partition type
> first (within cfdisk) to type 83.
>
>
>
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