[CLUE-Tech] Moving data between partitions?

[Jed S. Baer]

On Sat, 24 Aug 2002 08:46:03 -0600
Collins <erichey2 at attbi.com> wrote:

> > On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, Jeffery C. Cann wrote:
> > 
> > > Is there a simple way to move space from my /var partition to my /
> > > partition?
> 
> I depends on what you mean by simple.  Presuming you have sufficient
> space in your / partition (If not, see above!) I would:
> 
> 1) Shut down to single user mode (INIT 1)
> 2) unmount your /var partition and mount it on another mount point
> (/mnt ?).
> 3) cp -a /mnt/* /var
> 4) Fix your /etc/fstab (remove entry for /var)
> 5) INIT3 or INIT 5 and continue

Um, maybe I'm missing something here. But doesn't there need to be a step
to take the freed space away from the partition mounted as /var (e.g.
/dev/hdac or whatever), and allocate it to the partition mounted on / ?

I have a vague recollection of Partition Magic being available for linux,
but it isn't free (in any sense).

And where's Keith? I thought I'd leave the obligatory LVM commentary to
him. ;-)

jed
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