[Discuss] removing Win2k, reformat to reiserfs, increase size of /home

SJF twoflatfish at shaw.ca
Sun Aug 20 10:27:17 PDT 2006


This is the hard disc output of my /etc/fstab file:
/dev/hda2    /windows/C  ntfs  ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda5    /windows/E   ntfs  ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda6    swap          swap       defaults              0 0
/dev/hda7     /                reiserfs   acl,user_xattr        1 1
/dev/hda8     /home        reiserfs   acl,user_xattr        1 2

/dev/hdb1      /data1         auto       noauto,user           0 0
/dev/hdb2     /windows/D   vfat       users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0

hda6,7,8  is the home of Sled (Suse 10.1)
I have some windows backup files on /dev/hdb2 (34GB vfat that I want to keep)
/dev/hda2 and /hda5 and /hdb1are Win2k that I am now ready to abandon.
I would like to reformat these three partitions, then:
	1) move the /home to a larger partition (or add to its size), 
and  2) create a partition on /hdb for periodic backups 

/hda is 76.3GB
/hdb is 117.1GB

I need some expert opinion as to how to best re-allocate the partitions and 
safely increase the size of /home (or any other folder, by moving or adding 
to) the folder without fouling up my present linux setup. I am not confident 
with console text based commands and would prefer to use the Yast control 
center utilities for the reformatting, and Konqueror for moving (if that is 
possible).

Thanks
Stan Fisher




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