From: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh) Subject: Extending the size of a partition? Date: 14 Dec 1992 02:10:22 GMT
My /usr filesystem is on /dev/hda4, and is a Minix filesystem. I'd
like to somehow non-destructively replace this with an extended
filesystem so I'll have the space... currently, about 100 megs of
my disk are sitting unused after /dev/hda4.
I imagine this is impossible, but if there's any way to do this
without destroying the files, I'd like to try it. Otherwise, I'll
just have to tar up my entire /usr tree onto my DOS partition (which
I only use as my Linux backup!), kill the partition, replace it, and
then unpack the big tar file back onto the new /usr.
Any ideas? If I can't replace the filesystem non-destructively,
are there any caveats for backing up the whole thing with one
big tar file? Thanks for any help.
mdw
-- Matt Welsh mdw@tc.cornell.edu Cornell Theory Center "Go on, emote! I was raised on thought balloons!"