Need to make room in my parbreastion with Kernel and boot up stuff... 1459

Before you can increase the size of a parbreastion, you need to have unallocated space *immediately* after the last block of that parbreastion.

Given the layout of your disk, I think it extremely unlikely that you would want to mess about moving the start ofdev-hda5 to reduce its size then moving the start of your extended parbreastion by the same amount.

This is certainly not something to try to do in a hurry, and you would need to be *absolutely* sure that you had reliable backups of everything just in case something went wrong.

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One alternative that does not rely on resizing anything is to swap around *how* you are using your parbreastions. For example, you could move ontodev-hda8 then puttmp ontodev-hda1 this would more than triple the size of your root parbreastion.

You should not need to copytmp because by definition it should be transient data, but if you want to be extremely cautious, you could copy it to a directory under home whilst you make the changes.

In your place, I would do these manoeuvres on the CLI under Knoppix to be sure that nothing will change in the middle of everything.

1 Mountdev-hda1 anddev-hda8 - they will normally mount as mnt-hda1 andmnt-hda8 respectively

2 rm -rfmnt-hda8-*

3 cp -amnt-hda1-*mnt-hda8

You will then need to editmnt-hda8-etc-fstab to mount ondev-hda8 and to mounttmp ondev-hda1

You will also need to editmnt-hda8-boot-grub-menu.lst to look for the grub root directory on (hd0,7) and to look for the Linux root ondev-hda8

The first time that you reboot, you will probably need to specify root=-dev-hda8 on the grub parameter line and you may need to reinstall grub to be certain that it will look in the right place in future.

Once you are sure that everything is working OK, you can delete the old directories fromdev-hda1

HTH -- Robert This information provided free of charge for those willing to accept it. Others who wish to be spoon-fed may acquire my services at the discounted rate of 135 GB Pounds per hour or part thereof.