Odd Memory Allocation issues in Fedora 13.

[chrispche]

My root drive has 40 odd gig left on it. Whilst my home folder has 25 gig left on it. I want to add at least another 30 gig from the root. How can this be done?

Thanks.

[CSchwangler]

If you say "root drive", do you mean the / partition? If yes, the partition can only be changed if unmounted. Therefore, you could start from a liveCD, e.g. SystemRescue, and use that to resize. However, resizing partitions is risky and you should have a backup of important data.

[robertp1984]

I depends on the layout of partitions, whether you are using LVM or not and what filesystem is used.

[chrispche]

It's LVM under Fedora 13.

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Oh and ext4.

[robertp1984]

You should do something similar to the one from the article:http://allaboutfedora.blogspot.com/2...artitions.html

Please, note that in the article / filesystem was extended while in your case / filesystem will be shrinked.

[chrispche]

Look I'm not that savvy is there GUI program to do this? Plus as you say I want to go the opposite way.

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This is getting me down. I want to shrink my root partition by 30G and add that on to the /home directory. I have looked through Google and find tons of info of which I know little. As a former Ubuntu user, I'm as thick as **** when it comes to command line. Can anyone help me out here, I don't want to re-install just to resize a partition.

The reason I changed to Fedora is it's really stable and more compatible to my Laptop than Ubuntu 10.04. Plus it runs faster, drains less battery power.

Please please help.

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I re-installed and setup the partitions myself.