[ale] Near-FAQ: Repartitioning question

[John M. Mills]

Hello -

I have a GNU/Linux-2.2.5, i386, RH6.0 system which has outgrown its swap
partition: I sextupled the RAM (to handle bigger builds), and now have a
relatively useless RAM:swap ratio of approximately 192MBy:64Mby. I'm not
swapping much (!), but couldn't absorb much of a dump on one of those
builds, for example.

System status is as follows:

# mount
/dev/hda6 on / type ext2 (rw)               <- '/' and the usual suspects
none on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/hda5 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /home2 type ext2 (rw)          <- Didn't need Win95, anyway
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0622)

# df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6              1981710   1438673    440601  77% /
/dev/hda5                21927      2799     17996  13% /boot
/dev/hda1              2025735    731239   1189792  38% /home2

# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 560 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1       277   2094088+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2           278       560   2139480    5  Extended
/dev/hda5           278       280     22648+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6           281       551   2048728+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7           552       560     68008+  82  Linux swap

# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        193140     171092      22048      33172      83328      48588
-/+ buffers/cache:      39176     153964
Swap:        68004       4480      63524


Question: Can I use Disk Druid or some other handy tool to
nondestructively repartition (with minimal risk)? I plan to back up the
extended partition and its subs before attacking, but it would be great if
I could just move things around.

  John Mills, Sr. Software Engineer
  TGA Technologies, Inc.
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