Repartition existing partition...
Good day, guys.
I am wondering if there is a way to repartition an existing partition? Like for example, my /home filesystem is 10GB in size... I want to make it smaller and make it to 5GB and make another filesystem in the other 5GB... Is there a way to do this?
Thanks and God bless.
midnytblu
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midnytblu] at [2007-11-26 8:23:43]
# 2
thanks sir for the quick reply...but, unfortunately, i don't have a backup drive as of now... is there any other way to do it? and it is ufs...and you partition the drive using the format command right?thanks again and looking forward for your
# 5
fssnap: something new even for me..
But if space is the issue, maybe single user mode and backup of /home is easier.
As I understand fssnap will use the same amount of data on another disk that is used by /home (in his example).
Reading about it
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5093/6mkisoq9q?q=fssnap&a=view
one idea can be to use fssnap and mount the "blockdevice" and use tar later to unpack the files when repartitioning has been done.
