Re: one last question on partitioning ;-)

[Stefan Wold <s wold wineasy se>]

Hi again.

The answer is no. /dev/sda4 will still be the same partition. However
there are some tools that can do what you want. First you have to delete
sda4 from you harddrive to free the space, "fdisk /dev/hda" then at the
prompt type "d" then your partition number "4", then "w" to write the
changes to disk. Check this webpage for the tools you need
http://linux.msede.com/ext2/

But be sure to move your homedata to the new disk first =). And to be
really safe you should do a backup of your entire computer just for
safety.

Best regards
Stefan Wold           Vxl: +46 8 56311000  Wineasy AB
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On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Anurag Jalan wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> With inputs from Kevin, Stefan on this list plus an excellent paper
> from IBM's Linux library... i think i am finally confident enough
> to move my /home partition to the new drive during the weekend .
>
> I just want to confirm one thing and thats this : once i unmount
> /home from /dev/sda4 and mount it on say, /dev/sdb1 .... would the
> space released from /dev/sda4 ( after deletion of the files ) be
> added to the / partion ( /dev/sda3 ) ? FYI /dev/sda3 is /boot
> and /dev/sda2 is the SWAP . I could use the additional space on
> the / partition .
>
> I am still working my way towards Linux Nirvana (  a long way
> from attaining it though ) ....
>
> Thanks for being patient ..
>
> Anurag
>
>
>
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