Root pivoting, resizing reiserfs & upgrading SuSE 772

I'd add too that having one huge data parbreastion is simply asking for trouble, and also slows down the system (true for NTFS as well as Reiserfs) -- max size I use is 40GB. The other advantage is that data backup parbreastions may be left unmounted most of the time, reducing the chance of 'finger trouble' wreaking havoc on stored data.

Also, I keep a few spare parbreastions around, as well as unallocated drive space, here's an example, sempro box has 120 + 160GB HDDs, dual boot:

Diskdev-sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors-track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id Systemdev-sda1 1 512 4112608+ 7 HPFS-NTFSdev-sda3 * 1281 1920 5140800 83 Linuxdev-sda4 1921 14593 101795872+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)dev-sda5 1921 1984 514048+ 82 Linux swapdev-sda6 1985 2112 1028128+ 83 Linuxdev-sda7 2113 2176 514048+ 83 Linuxdev-sda8 2177 2240 514048+ 83 Linuxdev-sda9 2241 2304 514048+ 83 Linuxdev-sda10 2305 2816 4112608+ b W95 FAT32dev-sda15 14593 14593 8001 83 Linux

Diskdev-sdb: 160.0 GB, 16004188568 plus 16 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors-track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id Systemdev-sdb1 1 64 514048+ 82 Linux swapdev-sdb2 65 4160 32901120 83 Linuxdev-sdb4 4929 19456 11668 plus 16160 5 Extended

(over 100GB unallocated on second drive)

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted ondev-sda3 5140636 2815464 2325172 55%dev-sdb2 32900108 3019308 29880800 10%home-grant-linuxdev-sda6 1028060 93336 934724 10%usr-localdev-sda7 514028 80448 433580 16%var deltree:-home-share 8224960 1358368 6866592 17%home-share

I run a backup strategy of having copies of stuff on two other localnet boxen. Important stuff (project files) go to non-volatile CDROM storage.

Grant. -- Memory fault -- brain fried