post debian install & change partition space

[werone]

Hi,

When I installed sarge I selected Desktop configuration for partition configuration. Now my root is filling up fast. This my "df -k".
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 3913648 2759960 954884 75% /
tmpfs 778032 0 778032 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda6 7210624 192468 6651876 3% /home

I have also free 2.9 GB unused harddisk space that I want to use to expand swap space.

I want to expand /dev/hda3 and shrink /dev/hda6. I want to expand swap.

This is my /etc/fstab
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

I am new to linux and I do not know how to resize partitions etc. If I use external partition tool will that cause problem in debian? Does debian keep record of start and end sectors of harddisk for each partition?

Also I have added kernel 2.6.16.2. I also have old kernel 2.4.

-we'r'one

[Acron_0248]

Well, there are tools proper to linux to get what you want

Use gparted or qparted



Reegards



Bye