[CLUE-Tech] Red Hat 7.3 upgrade - /usr partition too small

[Michael Robbert]

At your own risk you can try using parted to resize the partitions. I
have used it a few times without ever losing any data. The only problems
I have had are that sometimes it won't do what I ask it to, but at least
the data is still there. They have a boot disk that you can make so that
you don't have to worry about anything being mounted and in use.

On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 10:54, Paul Bille wrote:
> I'm in the process of upgrading to from RedHat7.0 Guiness to RedHat7.3
> Valhalla. After scanning for the packages to upgrade, I get a message to
> the effect 
> 	/usr partition is too small, need 550+ mb
> 
> Can I re-partition the primary master without loosing all the data on
> the drive?
> 
> It's a dual boot system with LINUX and Windows installed on the master
> 10gb drive partitioned as follows: Primary Master 10GB
> 	hda1 	2048mb 	/dos
> 	hda2 	  104mb 	/
> 	hda3 	  104mb 	LINUX swap
> 	hda5 	1542mb 	/usr 
> 	hda7 	   54mb 	/var
> 	hda8 	6063mb 	/home
> 
> There is a 1.6GB slave with Windows data and an unused Win operating
> system: Secondary Slave 1.6GB
> 	hdb1 	1584mb 	Win FAT32
> 
> I have a /usr partition with 1.5GB that is only %72 utilized with RH 7.0
> but apparently RH 7.3 needs > 2GB. I wonder if I'll be able to
> re-partition to take some of the space from /home and use it for /usr
> without loosing all the data in /usr.
> 
> I'd like to preserve the LINUX system configuration information as well
> as the Windows installation on the primary master, hence I prefer to do
> a LINUX upgrade rather than a clean install.
> 
> Anyone been down this road?
> 

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