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Help expanding a partation

post #1 of 8
12/21/06 at 8:27pm
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Hi

Well I have a slight problem with disk space. When installing Ubuntu Edgy, I had decided to make a really large home partation and a boot and a swap. The problem is that I made the boot partation too small, only 3gb. Now I only have 50mb of free space there and I can't un zip anything. I shrunk the size of my home partation to produce 7gb of unallocated space. How would I go about increasing the size of the boot partation?
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post #2 of 8
12/21/06 at 8:51pm
Um you are missing something here...

where is your root ('/') partition?

I have a feeling this is what you meant by your boot partition, but want to make sure. At any rate you cannot expand the boot partition unless it is a LVM or the extra space is right next to it. If it is you can use gparted to do this I believe.

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post #3 of 8
12/21/06 at 11:12pm
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Yes, the boot is was referring to is my root "/" I noticed the lack of space when I was unable to unzip vmware server....

Here is a screen shot of what I got. Please tell me if there is anything I can do to get more space on my root.

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post #4 of 8
12/22/06 at 5:05am
Hmm that one may be tougher, if you can't do it via normal gparted methods, the only thing I could think of might be to create the new partition in the unallocated space, copy over say /usr to it and modify your fstab accordingly.

I haven't run across your specific situation though before so I can't give you to much information.

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post #5 of 8
12/22/06 at 8:07pm
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Is it possiable to make a complete copy of my "/" root partation, paste it in my home directory, then reformat the root partation, reinstall ubuntu, and replace all the root files with the backup ones?
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post #6 of 8
12/23/06 at 1:35pm
Possible... yes.

Reccomended, probably not. If you were to do that I would strongly reccomend you look up how to mount things, and get very used to how to do it. What you would want to do is make a copy of your root partition short of /var and /tmp but make those directories in the copy, and then change your fstab to mount the copy, reboot your computer and pray it works. Then you can change your partitioning around on the old partition, and repeat step one in reverse.

But easier scenario, just reinstall ubuntu, without reformating your home directory. Recreate the same user name. And reinstall the programs you need. Back up the various config files you have modified by hand into your home directory and restore them after the reinstall. That is the great thing about a basic seperate /home partition. It is very easy to restart without losing to much.

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post #7 of 8
12/23/06 at 4:32pm
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cool, i'll try that

If i copy all the contents in my /var directory will it copy everything relating to my website? Does the phpmyadmin get saved in the var directory?

My biggest issue with reinstalling to os in my website....
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post #8 of 8
12/24/06 at 3:21am
Depends on the setup of that particular software.

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