apt-get error -> resizing partitions.

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Saturday 08 September 2007, Knapp wrote:
> Also I was wondering about the fact that root has only 31% usage and
> boot and home need room. Can the extra space be transfered somehow?
> How? Without backing up everything and reformatting the drive? Maybe I
> just need to buy a new drive?

It's supposed to be possible to resize and rearrange partitions, but the 
no-risk quick and dirty alternative would be to simply use symlinks.  That's 
what I usually do myself when I find I haven't given enough space to hold a 
particular directory.

For example, you've got a few extra gigabytes on the / partition, and /home is 
running low, so you could create, say, a /data directory, chown/chmod it to 
give your user access, then create a symlink in your own /home/you directory 
so that /home/you/data points to /home/data.

It would be easier to do this with a directory other than /boot.  It's been so 
long since I fiddled with /boot that I can't predict what would happen if you 
moved your kernels from one partition to another.  I'd have to go experiment, 
and I'm not really feeling that adventuresome this morning.
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D. Michael McIntyre