Re: Anyone used Partition Magic to increase size of Linux / Partition?

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From: Peter T. Breuer
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 23:12

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In comp.os.linux.setup Shane Baker <sbakerATpcug.org.au> wrote:
> I'm running out of space, my root partition is the last thing on the drive
> and I have heaps of unused space.  

> Anyone know for certain whether I can extend my root partition with PM 5.01
> without buggering everything up?

Don't. Partition properly. / /var /boot /usr /usr/local and /home
(also possibly /opt and /usr/share). Check out the Partition-HOWTO.

Peter

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