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Adam
Host OS: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Guest OS: Windows XP Pro SP3
I am interested in increasing the size of the root (/) partition.
Here's a screenshot of the disk (via GParted) ...
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images...agpartedb.png/
And, here's additional disk usage info ...
adam@ASUS-LAPTOP:~$ df -H
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 9.9G 7.6G 1.9G 81% /
none 4.2G 336k 4.2G 1% /dev
none 4.2G 2.3M 4.2G 1% /dev/shm
none 4.2G 287k 4.2G 1% /var/run
none 4.2G 0 4.2G 0% /var/lock
none 4.2G 0 4.2G 0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda6 475G 69G 383G 16% /home
adam@ASUS-LAPTOP:~$
adam@ASUS-LAPTOP:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=6f40ecfb-c0eb-4c2d-a9a6-6a6672db35a2 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /home was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=2a875a2a-8088-4844-be48-337a2ee3200d /home ext3 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=73889cf0-db54-453c-92cf-384014a018cb none swap sw 0 0
adam@ASUS-LAPTOP:~$
What's the best way to go about this task?
Will I risk losing data if I just decrease the size of /home partition from
the right end?
If so, what's the fastest way to copy all data from /home?
Copy to a USB external drive? Or, copy to another drive on the network?
Constructive posts will be much appreciated.
Guest OS: Windows XP Pro SP3
I am interested in increasing the size of the root (/) partition.
Here's a screenshot of the disk (via GParted) ...
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images...agpartedb.png/
And, here's additional disk usage info ...
adam@ASUS-LAPTOP:~$ df -H
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 9.9G 7.6G 1.9G 81% /
none 4.2G 336k 4.2G 1% /dev
none 4.2G 2.3M 4.2G 1% /dev/shm
none 4.2G 287k 4.2G 1% /var/run
none 4.2G 0 4.2G 0% /var/lock
none 4.2G 0 4.2G 0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda6 475G 69G 383G 16% /home
adam@ASUS-LAPTOP:~$
adam@ASUS-LAPTOP:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=6f40ecfb-c0eb-4c2d-a9a6-6a6672db35a2 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /home was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=2a875a2a-8088-4844-be48-337a2ee3200d /home ext3 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=73889cf0-db54-453c-92cf-384014a018cb none swap sw 0 0
adam@ASUS-LAPTOP:~$
What's the best way to go about this task?
Will I risk losing data if I just decrease the size of /home partition from
the right end?
If so, what's the fastest way to copy all data from /home?
Copy to a USB external drive? Or, copy to another drive on the network?
Constructive posts will be much appreciated.