Re: repartition active machine

[Bob Hartung <rwhart mchsi com>]

Thanks.  I forgot about the nasty old fstab - successfully tried real 
hard to forget it!  :)

Thanks again,

Bob

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 31 March 2007, Bob Hartung wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >   Here is the issue & I am a relative newbie:
> >    I have a older Linux server with two partitions: /mammdata and
> > /rgdata.  The latter partition is no longer needed as the storage
> > requirements exploded and it was all moved to a NAS.  /mammdata is
> > almost full.  Will this scenario work:
> >
> > 1.  Back up all data on /mammdata (this is a SMB share)
> > 2.  fdisk and delete the partitions /mammdata and /rgdata1
> > 3.  create a new partition to use all the space no longer used by the
> > two deleted partitions
> > 4.  mkfs.ext3 -jvL pt-data
>
> You'll probably need a reboot here.  And DON"T forget to fix /etc/fstab 
> before the reboot.
>
> > 5.  restore the backed up data from originally on /mammdata
> >
> > Thanks for you input,
> >
> > Bob