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06-09-2013

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How to increase root space from another partition?

Hi OS Experts

I would like to increase root partition from another partition so that I can save more documents in Home and Desktop. whether it is possible without formating root partition if so please explain

here is o/p of df -h

Code:

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda9       107G   98G  2.9G  98% /
udev            1.9G  4.0K  1.9G   1% /dev
tmpfs           776M  940K  775M   1% /run
none            5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
none            1.9G  2.3M  1.9G   1% /run/shm
/dev/sda8       962M   68M  846M   8% /boot
/dev/sda10    80G   75G  770M 100% /Old_server
/dev/sdb1       932G  735G  198G  79% /media/Iomega
/dev/sda5       98G   80G   18G   82% /media/DATA_1

Here I am not using /dev/sda10 it contains some old files which I will delete and finally I would like to add 80GB from /dev/sda10 to /dev/sda9

Code:

OS    : Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 32-Bit
RAM   : 4GB
Swap  : 8GB

Please anyone help me

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addpart

ADDPART(8)                                                     System Administration                                                    ADDPART(8)

NAME

       addpart - tell the kernel about the existence of a partition

SYNOPSIS

       addpart device partition start length

DESCRIPTION

       addpart  tells the Linux kernel about the existence of the specified partition.  The command is a simple wrapper around the "add partition"
       ioctl.

       This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a block device.

PARAMETERS

       device The disk device.

       partition
              The partition number.

       start  The beginning of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).

       length The length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).

SEE ALSO

       delpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8), partx(8)

AVAILABILITY

       The addpart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

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