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BowlSmoker

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Registered: 2009-10-09

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Resizing root partition?

This may be a somewhat stupid question as I'm not sure if this is possible. However I used default partition options when installing, and 7.22GB isn't enough. I did clear cache and pacman cache which helped and I have a 1gb free, but would still like more so I don't have to think about it.

How would I go about resizing the partition (and making another smaller)?

mikesd

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-02-01

Posts: 788

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Re: Resizing root partition?

GParted boot cd. Backup first!

Another way would be to copy all your file-systems onto external storage, repartition your disk and then copy them back. While you are at it perhaps add lvm to the mix.

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perbh

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From: Republic of Texas

Registered: 2005-03-04

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Re: Resizing root partition?

I'd go for option #2 - if you have to back up first anyway (which you should), then you might as well go the whole mile ...
Just make a tarball to an external device - maybe one tarball for each partition, repartition and extract the tarballs again.
Note that you should not do this on a live system - use some live cd ...
Finally, you might have to reinstall grub - but that's a breeze

Gen2ly

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From: Sevierville, TN

Registered: 2009-03-06

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Re: Resizing root partition?

The Gparted LiveCD is good, personally I like Parted Magic CD as I've had better experience with it configuring the Xorg server and has Gparted on it.

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