How to resize partitions??

[aditya.shevade]

Hi

I have just installed opensuse 10.2 on my new HDD. I have made the paritions as

200 MB /boot
10 GB /
25 GB /home
2GB swap

All four are primary partitions. I only have opensuse installed. (No dual boot).

Now after all the installation and update the root partition is almost full. I want to increase it's size to 15 GB and decrease home partition to 20 GB without loss of data.

I used the rescue mode of opensuse and decreased the size of home to 20GBs using the resize option in YAST, but I was not able to increase the size of root partition, so I again increased the size of home to 25, and it worked.

Is there any way to expand the partition? Without data loss or reinstall?

Aditya

[linardni]

may try Partition Magic......

[unni]

Originally Posted by aditya.shevade

I only have opensuse installed. (No dual boot).

Man, you're great.

You can use GParted to resize an unmounted root partition. For this you have to use a live CD. Another option is Logical Volume Management. I don't know if you can use LVM on an already used partition though. Another option is to move to a different partition. Please note that I _haven't tried_ any of these methods.

[unni]

Has anybody here done partition resizing using Linux tools?

[aditya.shevade]

Thanks for the answers, but I had to reinstall SUSE because of problems during online update, and now I have created the partitions as required. And it's working great. Thanks again.

Aditya

[led_shankar]

@Unni: I used qparted from a Knoppix liveCD recently. Pretty easy.

[unni]

Can you give more details about it, like how big the partition was, what was the size after resizing, how much data was there in it, was it an in-between partition (ie, for example hda6 is between hda5 & hda7), how long did it take, did you encounter any error before, was there any reason for using qparted instead of gparted, which Knoppix version did you use etc.