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Operating Systems Linux How to increase root space from another partition? Post 302818793 by Akshay Hegde on Sunday 9th of June 2013 09:12:58 AM
Old 06-09-2013
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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REPARTITION(8)						      System Manager's Manual						    REPARTITION(8)

NAME
repartition - load a partition table SYNOPSIS
repartition device [partition-file] DESCRIPTION
Repartition uploads a new partition table for the partitions of device. The table is obtained from the first sector of partition-file if given, device otherwise. Device may refer to the whole drive or a primary partition, depending on whether you want to upload a partition or a subpartition table. The partitions will be truncated to fit within the enclosing device like the disk driver does, unless the numbers are coming from partition-file. EXAMPLES
repartition /dev/hd0 repartition /dev/hd4 /etc/hd4.table Reload the partition table of drive 0 setting /dev/hd[1-4], and the subpartition table of /dev/hd4 setting /dev/hd4[a-d] using a file. The latter may be useful if you need more than the 4 subpartitions a single Minix partition gives you. DIAGNOSTICS
The new table is printed on standard output. FILES
/dev/hd[0-9] SEE ALSO
hd(4), part(8). BUGS
The disk must be in use for the changes to stick. The partition table of an idle disk will be reloaded on the first open. AUTHOR
Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl) REPARTITION(8)
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