[Gllug] Re: Upgrade to SuSe 9.1?

[Stuart Sears]

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.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT 
ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR 
A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Using /dev/hda
Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hda is
4864/255/63.  Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M.
(parted) 

#-----
to see your available options type 'help'
#-----

(parted) help
check MINOR                   do a simple check on the filesystem
  cp [FROM-DEVICE] FROM-MINOR TO-MINOR      copy filesystem to another 
partition
  help [COMMAND]                prints general help, or help on COMMAND
  mklabel LABEL-TYPE            create a new disklabel (partition table)
  mkfs MINOR FS-TYPE            make a filesystem FS-TYPE on partititon MINOR
  mkpart PART-TYPE [FS-TYPE] START END      make a partition
  mkpartfs PART-TYPE FS-TYPE START END      make a partition with a filesystem
  move MINOR START END          move partition MINOR
  name MINOR NAME               name partition MINOR NAME
  print [MINOR]                 display the partition table, or a partition
  quit                          exit program
  rescue START END              rescue a lost partition near START and END
  resize MINOR START END        resize filesystem on partition MINOR
  rm MINOR                      delete partition MINOR
  select DEVICE                 choose the device to edit
  set MINOR FLAG STATE          change a flag on partition MINOR
(parted)

MINOR in your case means 1-8 (for /dev/hdc1-8)

have a go and see what you can do...

HTH

Stuart
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