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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: repartitioning question Date: 14 Mar 1996 22:54:24 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4ia830$191@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4i6u81$7e8@ccnet2.ccnet.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 gbernard@dbc.com (Greg Bernard) writes: > I have a question about repartitioning my hard drive. My usr > partition is almost full, at about 96%, and the root partition is > practically empty at about 34%. Can I safely use the partition editor > to allocate some more space to the usr partition from the root > partition, or will this corrupt the system? I can/should back up the > system first, so... You have to backup first. However, have a close look at the figures. Normally, the root partition is so small that the extra few megabytes won't really help you. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)