Re: Confirmation

[Andrew Clausen]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 01:52:02PM -0500, Barry Skidmore wrote:
> I just joined this mailing list, and my understanding is that all
> messages related to parted are welcome - not just discussion of
> bugs.

Correct :)

> I have read the parted documentation relating to extending a
> partition on a 'crowded' disk, and I think I understand the
> process, but would like confirmation that I can do this with
> my specific configuration.
> 
> As can be seen from the output from df, the '/' is almost full.
> I would like to take about 1.5G from the end of '/home' and use
> it to extend '/'.  The output from parted 'print' shows that
> '/home' and '/' are contiguous, so as long as I follow the
> procedure in the docs exactly, this should be posible, right?

I'm not sure about 'exactly'.  I would do:

        resize 3 13147 16500
        resize 4 16500 19092
        move 5 16500 17900
        resize 5 16500 18324

Make sense?

> /dev/hda5             372M  275M   78M  78%  /
> /dev/hda1              45M  5.9M   37M  14%  /boot
> /dev/hda3             4.6G  401M  3.9G   9%  /home
> none                  124M     0  124M   0%  /dev/shm
> /dev/hda2              13G  1.9G   10G  16%  /usr
> /dev/hda7             251M   82M  155M  35%  /var
> 
> 1       0.031     47.065 (47M)      primary     ext3      boot  /dev/hda1
> 2      47.065  13146.943 (13G)      primary     ext3            /dev/hda2
> 3   13146.943  17939.772 (4.6G)     primary     ext3            /dev/hda3
> 4   17939.773  19092.875            extended              lba
> 5   17939.804  18324.140  (384M)    logical     ext3            /dev/hda5
> 6   18324.171  18834.016  logical   linux-swap
> 7   18834.047  19092.875  (258M)    logical     ext3            /dev/hda7

Cheers,
Andrew