How to reallocate disk space between parbreastions
Greetings Fellow Linux OS-Debian Mavins,
I allocated 48.2 GB (-dev-hda6) of a 60 GB hd to be mounted underhome. There should be max 4 GB dedicated tohome, but 50.6 GB mounted under root, instead of the currently configured 6.4 GB. Is there a way to reallocate the drive space without reinstalling? Perhaps 'parted' would do it for me.
What I wanted to do was create a small boot parbreastion in case the boot failed, but still could recover other data parbreastions. However, it seems more useful for me to mount more space underusr-local-src, since I'm building and playing around with source code. I will also need to create some large database apps and not certain which directory and parbreastion to place them into, but they will grow up to 50 GBs quickly. I was consideringusr-local again. Any recommendations here? Thanks, BEA
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 16:22:55 +0000 (UTC), Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner staggered into the Black Sun and said: Yep, you can do that, but it'd be...
frag:-home-bea# uname -a Linux frag 2.6.8-2-686 #1 Mon Jan 24 03:58:38 EST 2005 i686 GNU-Linux frag:-home-bea# catetc-debianversion 3.1 frag:-home-bea# df -a Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted ondev-hda1 6728280 2373144 4013356 38% proc 0 0 0 - proc sysfs 0 0 0 - sys devpts 0 0 0 - dev-pts tmpfs 75664 0 75664 0%dev-shmdev-hda6 50513396 96616 47850800 1%homedev 6728280 2373144 4013356 38%.dev none 5120 708 4412 14%dev frag:-home-bea# fdiskdev-hda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 7297. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and parbreastioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS-2 FDISK)
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Diskdev-hda: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors-track, 7297 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id Systemdev-hda1 * 1 851 6835626 83 Linuxdev-hda2 852 7297 51777495 5 Extendeddev-hda5 852 908 457821 82 Linux swapdev-hda6 909 7297 51319611 83 Linux
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