Resizing ReiserFS Partitions -- Can it be done safely?

[Vram]

Paul M. Bucalo wrote:

>I'm looking for advise and success stories on resizing ReiserFS
>partitions on Ubuntu Hoary. I just noticed this evening how near to full
>my "/" partition is. I have plenty of extra room in "/home". I would
>like to shrink the one and give up that space to other without losing
>files and functionality. Can it be done safely?
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>Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>/dev/hda2             5.6G  5.0G  608M  90% /
>tmpfs                 126M     0  126M   0% /dev/shm
>/dev/hda3              32G  4.0G   28G  13% /home
>/dev                  5.6G  5.0G  608M  90% /.dev
>none                  5.0M  2.8M  2.3M  55% /dev
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>Paul
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This is what I would do....

copy /home <4 Gig> somewhere.. Another computer


delete /dev/hda3

create  /dev/hda3 about 500 meg   /

create /dev/hda5   about 2.5 gig /usr

create /dev/hda6   about 1 gig /usr/local

create /dev/hda7  about  3 gig /var

create /dev/hda8  3 gig /tmp

create /dev/hda9  /image   <keep my photos here>  20 gig

create /dev/hda10 /home   rest


Or something like that ..

YMMV...

HTH

Vram