Re: reclaiming space from redmond!
some more info: (i messed up the named of the devices in my earlier email)
here is a "df -h" from my machine:
prash@mantra:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda8 3.8G 3.2G 389M 90% /
tmpfs 189M 0 189M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda6 45M 5.3M 37M 13% /boot
/dev/hda1 6.9G 6.7G 228M 97% /mnt/c
/dev/hda5 7.8G 6.7G 1.2G 86% /mnt/d
/dev/hdb1 28G 24G 4.7G 84% /mnt/g
/dev/hdb5 28G 25G 3.9G 87% /mnt/h
/dev/hdb6 28G 15G 14G 52% /mnt/i
/dev/hdb7 31G 23G 8.3G 74% /mnt/j
as you can see /dev/hda6 is where i have my "/" partition. this is 90% full.
i need to "merge" somehow the 6.9 gb of /mnt/d mounted on /dev/hda5
(although it says 86% full, i will transfer all the data before i do
this of course).
so the question is: how do i merge /dev/hda6 (linux "/") with
/dev/hda5 (windows "d:drive")?
tia,
-prash.
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:19:48 -0500, Prashanth Narayanan
<iprash@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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