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

[David Bronaugh]

SJF wrote:
> 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).
>   
I would recommend you check out gparted ... http://gparted.sf.net/

They have a LiveCD you can boot your computer with so that you can 
resize and move around the partitions. Link: 
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=173828

This should be doable by growing and shrinking partitions and such.

David Bronaugh