Hallo all. Might I just say before I start the MEPIS Rules? Thanks.

Well, I gone and done it, ain't I? I didn't leave enough space in root after installing MEPIS. Somehow, I knew this would happen.

My partition schema (S-ATA drive):

sda1 - Dell auto-recovery partition. Thanks Dell. Way to use up my primary partitions. 10 gig-ish. Not writable, and with good reason.

sda2 - NTFS partition, yer vanilla WinXP partition that I'm not quite ready to give up just yet, thanks. About 130 gig. About 15% full.

sda3 - Linux swap - 512 Mb

sda4 - Primary partition consisting of two logical parts:

-sda5 - / (root) 2Gb. 75% full.
-sda6 - /home 5Gb about 15-20% full.

I also have a 40GB USB hdd (mounted as /mnt/sdb) that currently holds two ext3 partitions with knoppix persistent stuff that I don't really mind blootering if it helps.

Excuse the vague figures - I'm at work.

Anyway, I want to take some of that space of off the NTFS volume (which is only good for accessing data culled under windows (as Linux can read it) but no good for storing my Linux goodies (as Linux can't write to it, and it will be a cold day in hell before I let it).

I'm using the GRUB boot loader with a huge amount of success.


To solve the lack of space problem, I plan to:

1) Back up all of my Debian data (/* and /home/*) to sdb1 or sdb2.
2) In Debian LiveCD, delete the partitions sda3 and sda4 (and by implication, sda5 and sda6).
3) repartition sda to add sda3 (linux swap part) about 20GB from the end
4) Create a / partition of about 5.5 GB
5) Create a /home partition of about 14 GB
6) Restore the backed-up data to the correct partitions
7) Boot back into my Debian local installation
Rejoice.

Now, my questions:

1) Is there an easier/safer/quicker way to do this?
2) Have I missed anything of grinding importance that will have me in tears for my lost system or data at about 11am on Saturday?

Ta,

Dazzla