Re: Adding drive space

["Kevin D. Colby" <kevin marcal com>]

>This is my current setup:
>
>Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available
>Capacity Mounted on
>/dev/hda2             124927   92071    26405     78%   /
>/dev/hda1            1433120  668160   764960     47%   /dos
>/dev/hda4             452805  206906   222514     48%   /usr
>/dev/hdb              644324  644324        0    100%   /mnt/cdrom
>
>I would like to take 200 MB from the dos partition and use if for Linux.
>If someone could please let me know the best way to do this.  I was going
>to set aside the 200 MB from /dos using Partition Magic, and then format
>it using the Linux fdisk.  After that, I'm not sure what are the next
>steps.

Partition Magic will do, I think even FIPS is enough to steal 200M from
the primary DOS partition.  Then (in linux fdisk) change the partition's
type to 'Linux native' (#83 I think) by doing a 't' in fdisk.  You'll see.

After that, quit fdisk, and do a 'mke2fs /dev/hda?' (whatever yours is).
Then mount it on /mnt or something for the moment.  Now pick a mount
point for this guy.  I'd say part of /usr would be good, maybe /usr/local
or /usr/X11R6--you pick.  Do the following:

mount /dev/hda? /mnt
cd /usr/local
cp -rpa * /mnt
rm -rf *
umount /mnt
vi /etc/fstab

Now edit /etc/fstab to include a line for /usr/local (or whatever you
pick--get something big, do a 'du -s *' from /usr)  and the new /dev/hda?.
Try a 'mount -a'.  Check out /usr/local.  Reboot for good measure.
Serves 8.  Enjoy.

        - Kevin Colby
          kevin marcal com