[NTLUG:Discuss] D.A.question about repartitioning on the fly

[Johnny Cybermyth]

You could use the gnu parted program.  They offer a 2 floppy boot disk 
version that allows you to boot into a minimal Linux system and mess 
with the partition table, including resizing with data-loss protection. 
  Also, some live cd's have parted included.

I've used gnu parted a handful of times, most recently being yesterday, 
and it always works like a champ.

http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/

--Johnny Cybermyth

Fred wrote:
> Suse (and others) like to create 2 partitions during install: / and
> /home. No /usr, no /etc. Some time ago (year or two) I installed Suse
> 9.1 on my daughter's puter and happened to notice recently that / is
> at 94% AND they want OpenOffice which, at 120MB or so installed,
> ain't happening until the disk gets repartitioned. /home has about 2
> 1/2 gigs of space.
> 
> I seem to remember she has reiser fs instead of ext3. I get confusing
> info when looking on the web on how to do it; most say dynamic
> repartitioning is out, that I need to make a complete backup (always
> good advice) then flush and start over. Others say it can be done but
> don't give me a warm & fuzzy with their "instructions".
> 
> Does anyone have experience, or success with, this process?
> 
> Thanks,
> Fred
> 
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