Resizing active partitions?

Huw · 11 Nov 2011 at 16:39

Hullo chaps!

I've just thrown Sabayon on my poota and have been merrily plugging away at it, only to suddenly be told there's about 350 MB left on my root partition! Oops! It's about 7GB which has always been enough with other distros, but I guess I should probably expand it to about 15GB.

So how safe is it to do this with, say, GParted on a live disc? Obviously I'll back up my important data first, but basically I need to shrink /home a bit and expand / a bit. Is this likely to be a problem?

Thanks in advance for any help.

wiiija · 11 Nov 2011 at 16:51

Yep its easy, just use GParted live as you said, I've done it numerous times with no ill effects

Huw · 11 Nov 2011 at 17:53

Tidy, I'll give it a try later then. Cheers fella!

Huw · 11 Nov 2011 at 23:52

Well **** me! If I'd know how long it would take I wouldn't have done it on my precious Friday night! That's gaming gone out of the window.

It did work like a charm though!

Essexraptor · 12 Nov 2011 at 00:22

Huw said:
Well **** me! If I'd know how long it would take I wouldn't have done it on my precious Friday night! That's gaming gone out of the window.

It did work like a charm though!

lol

I normally do these sort of things overnight

Huw · 12 Nov 2011 at 09:19

Yeah, I'll do that next time!

In other news, Sabayon with the latest Gnome release is very very nice! I thought the Gnome 3.x series was reviled but I'm really enjoying it (now that I've finally got Evolution to behave).