Resizing ReiserFS Partitions -- Can it be done safely?

[russell cook]

Hi Paul,
I don't go to the trouble of lots of partitions. This install is about 
8months old and I have Gnome and KDE on it and I've not used more then 
4.5G of the / partition.

Here's my current partitioning scheme:

Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdd1 reiserfs     15G  4.5G   11G  31% /
tmpfs        tmpfs    507M     0  507M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 reiserfs    197M   58M  139M  30% /boot
/dev/mapper/Linux-home
          reiserfs    187G  170G   18G  91% /home
/dev/hda5 reiserfs    2.0G   33M  2.0G   2% /tmp
/dev/hdd2 reiserfs     12G  2.2G  9.1G  20% /ubtest


ubtest, is where I have another Ubuntu install for testing i.e. AMD64 or 
Breezy when it gets a bit more stable and I then share my /home 
partition across the two. It seems to work for me, although I've had to 
edit the grub menu.lst file manually a couple of time s when things have 
got confused.

Other than that, this works for me, ymmv :-)


Kind Regards Russell

Paul M. Bucalo wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 00:26 -0700, Vram wrote:
>  
>
>>Paul M. Bucalo wrote:
>>
>>    
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>>>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?
>>>
>>>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
>>>
>>>Paul
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>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
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>>create /dev/hda9  /image   <keep my photos here>  20 gig
>>
>>create /dev/hda10 /home   rest
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>>
>>Or something like that ..
>>
>>YMMV...
>>
>>HTH
>>
>>Vram
>>
>>    
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>
>Vram. 
>
>I have partitioned beyond current status in the past, when I had a lot
>of disk space to chop up. It seems that the first time around in
>checking out any new distro, you never quite give it enough room to
>"breathe". :0) 
>
>I usually give "/" at least 10 GB's and leave the rest to "/home" and
>"swap" on a desktop system, but somehow I shorted myself this time
>around. 
>
>So, what you are advising is to *not* try and resize, but start over
>with a newer scheme. Time constraints wouldn't make this my first
>choice. It will come to this if no one has any success stories on
>resizing to pass on to me. 
>
>Thanks for the suggestion. 
>
>Paul
>
>
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>


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