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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!portc01.blue.aol.com!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!news.acsu.buffalo.edu!acsu.buffalo.edu!pleung From: pleung@cs.buffalo.edu (Patrick Leung) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Partition Full Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Date: 1 Oct 1996 20:39:55 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo Lines: 22 Message-ID: <52rvir$p3a@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> References: <01bbafd5$724a7e00$1340abce@dgainor.fia.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: gagarin.cs.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: pleung X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5037 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1376 Drew Gainor (dgainor@fia.net) wrote: : My root Partition is full and I need to make it bigger. Is ther a way to do : this without reformatting the drive? : -- : Drew Gainor : dgainor@fia.net : System Engineer : First Intenet Franchise Corp. I don't think so. ;-)) Sorry... You will have to repartion your harddrive, and reformat You can also move stuff off your root partition into another free partition and just make symbolic links to them so you old programs won't break. However, this may not be a very elegant solution. I still think the best thing to do is to backup your current harddrive, repartition, reformat, and restore from backup. Tedious, but really is the best solution I think. Patrick