Re: [LI] Increasing the size of the mount point

[Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 03:48:06PM +0530, root wrote:
> Hi,
> I wanna know if it possible to increase the size of space allocated to a
> mount point.
> I did a automatic installation for GNOME workstation, and it allocated
> 720 MB space to "/". But i need to add more space to the same mount
> point. I need atleast 1200 Mb for "/". I have created a new partition
> that is 500 MB.
> Now i need to know if it possible, and if yes, how can a i combine the
> two partitions which point to the same mount point "/".

Simple answer is: you can't. But what you can do is, find out, which is
a space consuming directory in "/" - say "/usr" and mount your newly
created partition at "/usr" and copy over stuff from the old "/usr"
(which was on the partition mounted at "/") over to the newly
created partition.

Now you have 720 MB on / and 500 MB on /usr.

	-Arun
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