[NTLUG:Discuss] D.A.question about repartitioning on the fly

[Terry]

On 1/26/06, Fred <fredstevens at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Suse (and others) like to create 2 partitions during install: / and
> /home. No /usr, no /etc. Some time ago (year or two) I installed Suse
> 9.1 on my daughter's puter and happened to notice recently that / is
> at 94% AND they want OpenOffice which, at 120MB or so installed,
> ain't happening until the disk gets repartitioned. /home has about 2
> 1/2 gigs of space.
>
> I seem to remember she has reiser fs instead of ext3. I get confusing
> info when looking on the web on how to do it; most say dynamic
> repartitioning is out, that I need to make a complete backup (always
> good advice) then flush and start over. Others say it can be done but
> don't give me a warm & fuzzy with their "instructions".
>
> Does anyone have experience, or success with, this process?
>
> Thanks,
> Fred


Want to do it the safe and easy way?
Add another HD.  Make a partition of a size you think you won't
outgrow on that new drive, cp -a /usr/* to new partition, mv /usr
/usr2 change the mount point for /usr to point to new partition,
reboot, rm -rf /usr2 - done.
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