[ale] Oops - Want to rearrange two partitions

[John Mills]

Jim -

Thanks for the help.

My level of comfort with fdisk is pretty good. If I understand that part 
of the process, I would:

1. Backup files and directories,

2. Edit the partition table,

3. 'mkfs' on the changed partions ('reiserfs' in this case), and

4. Recover directories and contents from my backups.

Did I follow that?

 - Mills

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Jim Popovitch wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 12:46 -0500, John Mills wrote:
> > ALErs -

> > How might I resize partitions to move an extra GB from into /var without 
> > trashing my installation, else move it and recover its space?
 
> Copy the contents of /home or /opt to some temp place.  Also, I would
> recommend backing up the contents of /var too, use a tar file or copy it
> to another location using something like "cp
> -rp /var /root/var-backup" .   Note: to change the partition size
> of /dev/hdb7 you will need to be logged in directly as root, not
> su'ed.  
 
> Next you have two options, the first is to use parted to
> shrink /dev/hdb7 or htd9 and then again to grow /dev/hdb8.
 
> Alternatively you could use fdisk or cfdisk to actually re-edit the
> partition table...but the side affect of doing this is that you then
> need to re-format the modified partitions.
 
> What is your experience level with all of the above tasks?  If you feel
> comfortable with fdisk, I would recommend that path as it is easier
> (IMHO).