resize /home

[tgs728]

my partions are this

name dir strat end(blocks) size

dev/sda1 /boot 10 121 100m


dev/sda2 / 122 3211 3000m

dev/sda3 /home 3211 5245 2000m

dev/sda4 extended 5245 20345 15000m

dev/sda5 /var 5245 82435 3000m

dev/sda6 /usr 8245 13567 5000m




how to resize my /home partition to 3gb without no loss of content?

[nujinini]

Hello,

Can you please post the outputs of

# fdisk -l
# df -h

here? Thanks

[devils casper]

It is not easy to resize /home partition because there isn't any free space before or after it.
Is there any unpartitioned disk space in your Hard disk?

[oz]

how to resize my /home partition to 3gb without no loss of content?

You must have free (unallocated) space next to the partition that you want to expand, so you'll need to either shrink a partition that is currently residing next to /home, or move some partitions around so that you have unallocated space next to /home in order to expand it. The Parted Magic LiveCD can handle such tasks easily if you want to try it.

There is always a chance for data loss when you manipulate partitions, so be sure to have any important data backed up.

Hope it all goes well.

[tgs728]

yes i have it more 10 gb

[oz]

yes i have it more 10 gb

If the 10 GB is not residing right next to the partition that you want to expand, you'll have to move your partitions around on the disk so that it is adjacent to the partition to be expanded. Again, Parted Magic can easily handle these chores, and having backups on hand is a great idea whenever you manipulate partitions, and is highly advised. I'd personally recommend using the latest version of Parted Magic because version 4.11 has a Gparted bug that could cause you some grief.

[devils casper]

Post the exact output of fdisk -l command here.

su -
fdisk -l