[Gllug] Re: SuSe 9.1 post-installation

[neil c]

From:
Andrew Scott <andrew at aammscott.demon.co.uk>

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>Hello glluggers,
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>5. My /usr partition, at 5 GB, was already cramped under Mdk 9.1. Now,
>at 94% full, it's getting tight in there! I've taken on board
>suggestions for using something like parted, but have no experience in
>this area. What I would like to know is if it is SAFE to use parted or a
>derivative to resize partitions on a live system without risk of loss of
>data.
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I've not managed to get parted working on an ext3 partition :-( If you 
do have some extra disk space laying about I would consider simply 
formatting it as required and moving /usr/lib, /usr/share (or any other 
directory that might already be big and likely to grow) onto it and 
remounting..etc.

>Cheers, and thanks for any replies!
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I don't know anything else Suse specific - good luck :-)

>Andrew 
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neil
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