changing logical ext3 parbreastion 2231

With figures like that, you definitely need to reparbreastion at some stage, but I don't think you need to worry about starting from scratch just yet.

IMNSHO 50G each fortmp andusr is way OTT. Is sda5 your swap parbreastion, or something else?

I would suggest that you start by copying everything fromhometmpusr andvar into new directories on the root parbreastion after booting from a live CD-DVD then use fdisk to delete all other parbreastions.

The approach I would take would be as follows:

1 reboot with a live CD such as knoppix

2 open up a terminal and type su

3 mountdev-sda1media-sda1

4 mount the other parbreastions in a similar manner

5 mkdirmedia-sda1-home2

6 cp -amedia-sda2-*media-sda1-tmp

7 cp -amedia-sda3-*media-sda1-usr

8 cp -amedia-sda6-*media-sda1-var

9 cp -amedia-sda7-*media-sda1-home2

10 umountmedia-sda2 through tomedia-sda7

11 editmedia-sda1-etc-fstab to delete the lines fortmp-usr andvar

12 change the line forhome to point todev-sda5

13 using "fdiskdev-sda" delete all parbreastions apart from sda1, create a swap parbreastion of at least 1G, create an extended parbreastion using the remaining space on the drive (probably about 74 or 75G) and finally create a logical parbreastion of at least 25G to hold the nmewhome (you may decide to give it more)

14 save the changes

15 mountdev-sda5media-sda5

16 cp -amedia-sda1-home2-*media-sda5

17 reboot to the system installed on the hard disk

Once you are satisfied that all is well, you can deletehome2

HTH

-- Robert HULL

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