how to increase existing partition ?

[James]

> If there is space left on the drive for that, it is probably the
> simplest.  That is one insane amount of partitions, most of which are
> way smaller that I would ever have considered reasonable.
> 
> Having seperate /tmp is sometimes good, seperate /var is good if you
> store lots of logs and don't want to getting cut off, /home seperate
> makes sense if you have lots of users and are not using quotas, having
> /usr seperate from / really doesn't accomplish anything useful, and
> seperate /boot makes sense for cases where /boot needs a different
> filesystem or your bios is old and crappy.  A database server or
> something may make sense to store it's data somewhere seperate too.

i used to have this system installed with RH7.2. three partitions root boot swap
now i have learned more about linux than 3 years ago, i want to rebuild this system.

having a larg /home is for the samba PDC server. 
/var/mail is for postfix mail server.
/boot is a small partition 20M and no harm to have it.
i agree having /usr/local seperate from /usr is not necessary in my case.
 
> I tend to do swap, / and /data and I symlink any large things into
> /data.  Keeps life simple and quite reliable.  Using LVM and resizeable
> filesystems is another way to deal with it and quite useful to learn.

sounds just like what i had before. 3 partitions. what does yours different from a simple 3
partitions?  

i have seen LVM while google for answer( kernel support needed ? given that /usr is too small, can
i build kernel in other directory than /usr ? ) i will take a further look.


> Lennart Sorensen

thanks.

Qiang

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