[NTLUG:Discuss] / filling up, again. 2nd try

[Wayne Dahl]

On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 21:20, David wrote:

> Um, most likely no.  Most Linux distributions today boot by loading
> the kernel and an initial root disk image from the boot drive.  What
> ultimately ends up as root depends on what configuration is in that
> initial root disk image, not /etc/fstab.  
> 
> It appears that all you want to do is to make / bigger.  I'd suggest
> you examine the GNU Partition Editor, parted, and see if that will
> meet your needs.

This sounds even better.  So...after reading the man pages for parted,
I'm still not sure how to use it.  Let's say I wanted to make / 2 Gigs
(does that sound like a decent size given the way these drives are
partitioned?), I don't really have room on hda to do that...unless I
move /tmp and /swap to hdc, which I'm assuming I should be able to do
ok.  hda is a 6 Gig drive with 3.8 Gigs taken up by Win98.  I should
then be able to resize perhaps /home and /usr to give the space needed
on hdc for /tmp and /swap, move those partitions to hdc (can you use the
parted move command to move partitions from one hd to another?), then
use the parted resize command to make / larger?

Any gotchas to this idea?

Thanks again,
Wayne