how do i move data between partitions ??? or shouldnt I ??

To move data you only have to use cp command or copy/paste in X, your partitions may be in /mnt/.
To resize partitions you can use 'fdisk' or 'cfdisk'

hmm... that dont help me much!

using df gives:
/dev/hda1 3092380 647548 2444832 21% /
/dev/hda6 2096380 2092596 3784 100% /usr
/dev/hda7 3124508 58524 3065984 2% /var
/dev/hda8 21385664 33068 21352596 1% /home

I need to move space from /var or /home to /usr.
Can I move data from /usr and /var to /home before I resize it with fdisk??
What will happen with Linux during the time /usr not exist??

best regards PeO

cp copies but does not move. I don't know whether there is a move command (probably is) so after copy you have to delete (rm) separately. I suggest you use a file manager (Konqueror, mc ... your choice).

After that, search your system for *parted (may be named GNUparted, sparted, cparted...) and run that. Parted will allow you to resize partitions in a running system, so you can decrease /home in size before inflating /usr .

Consequently, with parted you don't need to move anything .

tnx.. ill try it!
maby ill copy the files first anyway... if...

I heard about Murphys law

I did the same file/partition shuffle yesterday. create, move, destroy.

DO it the easy way. DOwnload the following rescuedisc. It containg Gentoo distro and apps to let you backup/restore and play with your partitions.

It's best to boot to this because to run a partition manager, you don't want any partitoins you want to effect to be mounted, busy.

So, burn the disk, then boot to it. Type menu. arrow down to run rescue disc. Gentoo will load and you will be able to run partimage to save your stuff prior to modifying the partition.

THen, run run_qtparted to do your thing to your partitions.

Yesterday I was able to perform these tasks with no errors. I wanted to modify my partitions to reflect my current fc2 plan, so I put all the data from my windows partitions into one newly resized one, (for this I used ntfs resize on a floppy - bootable) then I deleted and created a new partition on the hdd for backups. (hdb2)

THen on my master hdd, where windows (hda1) and fc2 (hda5) live, I resized the extended (with logical drives) partition that is my / partition (ext3 - hda6). I then made another partition on this drive for all my music.

It was really quite easy -- it just took some time. Only 'cos I was chickenshit. That was ALL my data.

Running partimage was easy. I mounted the partition I earlier created for backups...we're running the gentoo disc here. Then running partimage I told it to make an image of hda6 and put it in the new partition I just made, and call it...

F5, F5 and 18 minutes later a 1.67gb back up of the 6.3gb worth of files in my / partition.

Resizing that extended partition was easy -- since I booted to gentoo on a disc, I could use qtparted and just drag the slider, man. Choose the partition, right-click, resize...drag the slider.

Committ, reboot (to your hdd, change it back in the bios) and there you go. Now, mount your stuff. Goto your fstab file and write a permanent mount for your new stuff.

computing is cool.

Ofcourse there is a move command is 'mv' you have to use it whit '-rf' options to move directories

is there a GUI partition manager for linux? (using FC2)

yes: qtparted (http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/), and part-gui (http://part-gui.sourceforge.net/)

or just boot the pc using knoppix... and use qt parted on it... as this way drives in question are unmounted...

you have also the first release of Gparted http://gparted.sourceforge.net/