[Techtalk] Resizing A Partition?

[Sara Falamaki]

If you can boot from a floppy, this tool may be handy:
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html

On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 06:46:10PM +1100, Rasjid Wilcox wrote:
> On Saturday 22 November 2003 16:31, Raquel Rice wrote:
> > I need to resize the /usr partition on an existing installation.
> > What is the best way to do that with the minimum damage?
> 
> Well, one way would be to use Parted 
> (http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html).  Should come with most 
> distros.  I think there several GUI interfaces to them (QtParted for 
> example), but I'm not sure if you will be able to use them while resizing 
> /usr.
> 
> Other options depend a bit on your disk layout and/or whether you have any 
> empty (non-partitioned) disk space.  In which case the output of df would be 
> useful, and possibly fdisk.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rasjid.
> 
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> Rasjid Wilcox
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Sara Falamaki                                 
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CSE, UNSW  
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