From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HxfrL-0007fC-Jv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:06:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l5B958W3029268; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:05:08 GMT Received: from gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de (gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de [134.76.163.126]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l5B8wDPk018901 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:58:13 GMT Received: by gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de (Postfix, from userid 8) id CE1B53246B4; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:01:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (unknown [134.76.161.221]) by gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B96E3246B3 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:01:35 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:58:11 +0200 From: Hans-Werner Hilse To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition Message-Id: <20070611105811.02576348.hilse@web.de> In-Reply-To: <200706110824.35214.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <200706081805.00549.alexey.kv@gmail.com> <1181321003.6827.3.camel@localhost> <20070608205245.c1424675.hilse@web.de> <200706110824.35214.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=ham version=2.64 X-Archives-Salt: 6d861ada-2a06-43e1-885a-601bd9177619 X-Archives-Hash: 0eefd70ac9b1ba699495791cf6ffb746 Hi, On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:24:00 +0100 Mick wrote: > On Friday 08 June 2007 19:52, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > > Also, this method will also need a bigger or equally sized new > > partition. If it's bigger, one also needs to resize the filesystem > > afterwards. > > How do you resize the fs? I was never comfortable trying this at > home... but I have a feeling I might need to use it sooner or later. This is file system specific. There's e.g. resize2fs, xfs_growfs and other programs for the other FS. Of course, there's no need to grow the filesystem, but you won't have more space than before because file systems don't usually adapt to partition size. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list