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After my first fedora 10 installation I reinstalled FC 10 keeping my home partition from the first install.I then installed a software as a USER which indeed installs applications on ...
- 05-01-2009 #1Just Joined!
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Want to resize the home partition without reinstallation!
After my first fedora 10 installation I reinstalled FC 10 keeping my home partition from the first install.I then installed a software as a USER which indeed installs applications on USER's home. Now I'm short of space for installing the applications and so I want to resize my existing home (of USER).Can this be done without reinstallation? Can I borrow needed amount of space from the home partition of 1st install.also I have unformatted and unpartitioned free space can this be made use of? Or the only way is to reinstall fedora!
- 05-01-2009 #2Linux Guru
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I don't know Fedora well, but if the live CD has gparted installed, you can use that.
Also check out Parted Magic, a specialized distro for partitioning tasks.
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I've always used Gparted from a live CD for all of my re-sizing needs.
While I've never lost any data, you should still make back-ups just in case.Jay
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- 05-01-2009 #4Linux User
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I've done it twice with Gparted (about a year apart). The first time screwed up everything, the second time worked well.
So as jayd512 says - do a backup first.Pete
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