how to increase existing partition ?

[James]

hi,

i set up /usr directory too small, now it run out of space. i have spare space  around in the same
drive. how do i add it to /usr ?

here is du -h and fdisk -l output:

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda7             486M   88M  373M  19% /
/dev/hda1              23M  2.7M   18M  13% /boot
/dev/hda2             1.4G  122M  1.2G   9% /home
none                   30M     0   30M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda10            114M  4.1M  103M   4% /tmp
/dev/hda6             486M  333M  128M  73% /usr
/dev/hda3             1.2G   34M  1.0G   3% /usr/local
/dev/hda9             190M   13M  167M   7% /var
/dev/hda8             486M  8.1M  453M   2% /var/mail


Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 788 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1         3     24066   83  Linux
/dev/hda2             4       194   1534207+  83  Linux
/dev/hda3           195       347   1228972+  83  Linux
/dev/hda4           348       788   3542332+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5           348       412    522081   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda6           413       476    514048+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7           477       540    514048+  83  Linux
/dev/hda8           541       604    514048+  83  Linux
/dev/hda9           605       629    200781   83  Linux
/dev/hda10          630       644    120456   83  Linux


i thought of creating a new ext3 filesystem from 655 to 788, and copy all content of /usr  to it.
then mount the new drive as /usr. 

is it doable ?  what are other good choices ?


thanks


Qiang.

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