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- From: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
- Subject: Extending the size of a partition?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.021022.16565@tc.cornell.edu>
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- Organization: The Linux Inquisition, Propaganda Division
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 02:10:22 GMT
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- My /usr filesystem is on /dev/hda4, and is a Minix filesystem. I'd
- like to somehow non-destructively replace this with an extended
- filesystem so I'll have the space... currently, about 100 megs of
- my disk are sitting unused after /dev/hda4.
-
- I imagine this is impossible, but if there's any way to do this
- without destroying the files, I'd like to try it. Otherwise, I'll
- just have to tar up my entire /usr tree onto my DOS partition (which
- I only use as my Linux backup!), kill the partition, replace it, and
- then unpack the big tar file back onto the new /usr.
-
- Any ideas? If I can't replace the filesystem non-destructively,
- are there any caveats for backing up the whole thing with one
- big tar file? Thanks for any help.
-
- mdw
-
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- Matt Welsh mdw@tc.cornell.edu Cornell Theory Center
- "Go on, emote! I was raised on thought balloons!"
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