[Gllug] Changing the filesystem size of a live machine

[Wolfgang Draskovic]

> Is this possible? Basically what I want to do is change the size of my /tmp
> partition, as this is only 1 GB, and my /usr partition is 8 GB, so I want
> to take 3 GB from /usr, and add it on to /tmp, can this be done safely, and
> without rebooting the machine?

Hi

I guess, there is no lvm on your machine.
So the only alternative is to move and symlink your /tmp to your /usr 
partition.

HTH Wolfgang

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