[Gllug] Re: Upgrade to SuSe 9.1?

[Chris Bell]

On Tue 21 Sep, Stuart Sears wrote:
> 
> On Sunday 19 Sep 2004 20:56, Andrew Scott wrote:
> > Stuart,
> >
> > Thanks for the reply, and sorry for the munged formatting, but I take
> > the digest to preserve my sanity.
> >
> > The /home partition contains the /home filesystem ;) Seriously, here is
> > the output of df for your edification:
> okay, okay :-) I was only pointing out that filesystems and partitions are not 
> always the same thing...
> >
> > Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hdc1              6047220    514172   5225864   9% /
> > /dev/hdc8             24599996   2306836  22293160  10% /home
> > /dev/hdc6              4031152   2819616   1006764  74% /usr
> > /dev/hdc7              4031152    385680   3440700  11% /var
> how about fdisk -l /dev/hdc?
> (so that I can see where partitions start and end)
> > I could probably move a few blocks from /home to /usr ;) Is parted a
> > Linux utility, or something DOS? Where can it be found?
> gnu parted is a linux utility and ships with most distros, I believe.
> It's certainly in Red Hat, Fedora, Knoppix and probably SuSE as well. 
> (although I haven't checked this).
> It even has a groovy (sorry) frontend called qtparted
> It does have limitations, however - while it can move and resize partitions 
> (and their filesystems) it will not change their place in the partition table 
> - so '/dev/hda8 remains /dev/hda8, even if you move it to _before_ /dev/hda7
> have you tried to run (as root)
> parted /dev/hdc
> 
> it should give similar output to:
> 
> [root at laptop root]# parted /dev/hda
> GNU Parted 1.6.9
> Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, 
> Inc.
> This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.
>

   Beware that some new partitioning tools use a different naming scheme, so
it is easy to be confused about the actual patitions listed. Another problem
is that some use the decimal 1MB = 10^6, 1GB = 10^9, rather than binary 2^16
and 2^19.


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Chris Bell

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