Resizing the ext3 partition (File System Management)

[anuj_irix]

Hello everyone!
I reached a place where one of my partition was near to 100% while others had extra fee space. (/usr =99% and others like /var and /tmp had extra space). I tried to resize my partitions but was unsuccessful . Finally I decided to format my hdd(winnt + RHEL3 + Fedora4 + RHEL4). My plan was to remove RHEL3/winnt (I was not using them) and add resulting free space to my RHEL4 and FC4 os but my plan failed cause I was unable to resize my partition
There must be some proper method for doing this(resizing /usr or any other ext3 partition) as, this is not at all the solution to format hdd.
Currently I made new partitons proper (gave max to /usr and other things) and probably out of free space problem will not occur this time...but still I want to know this thing for future.
Thanks in advance

[afonic]

You need to unmount partitions before you resize them.

[DenisF]

hm, i don't think that you can extend your current partition with the free space from the one u deleted, considering they're not one after the other but on different parts of the hard drive.

you can, however, make a new /home and mount your old stuff under /home2 then just link it all together

[if /home is the full partition in question]

[afonic]

I think you can.

If I remember well my /home was the first partition and the free space was in the end of the disk (after / and swap) but I was able to resize it.

[dillona_aix]

How about LVM?

[zoli]

LVM is a solution if you want to resize the volume, but I am not sure if it is possible to convert an ext3 to logical volume.

To be honest I have never tried LVM on Linux.

[dillona_aix]

I have used it on Linux, but only installed at setup. I have never modified or added one.

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