Growing / partition?

Hi,
I have 2 primary partitions(ntfs for winServer /booting) and one extended(swap+root+home,ext4 the last 2).The disk has no free space
I am remaining out of space on / ,only 2gb free from the 20
I have space on /home.

How can i grow the / partition? or maybe create a new /tmp partition (by shrinking the /home) and mount the last at any boot.
openSUSE13.1x64

It’s not a thing to do not without be sure first,so please take your time.

Thanks

While is is actually possible resize / while it is running (with tricks) I always recommend using gparted and booting from it; http://gparted.org/

And it’s something everyone should have on a CD/DVD/USB somewhere because you never know when it becomes handy :slight_smile:

Please, have backups before you do anything. The chance of data loss nowadays is quite small but it’s still there.

If
i login like root shrink the /home and create a /tmp or-and /var partition,
you know how and when re-mount and define the new partitions mounting points?

I all ready have backup of /home in usb-disk,but not of /

Hi,i did it without loosing any data

I used systemrescue live iso(http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage) that contains gparted (thanks Miuku)

Good solution for backup is mondo-rescue , you can find the repo at ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/opensuse/ but not at the search packages page of opensuse.org(why?) and partimage(http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page)

The Maintainer of the Mondo Rescue package in the openSUSE Build Service has disabled building it for everything except SLE-11 and most likely no longer actively maintains is.

No one else has stepped up to do it so…

But there are packages in ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/opensuse/13.1/
and in my case they are working(x64),
You must know better.

But that is not a openSUSE repo. Which Miuku is referring to. Maybe someone need to take on the job of packaging it for the openSUSE repos.

Well we don’t know - unfortunately if the people at Mondo Rescue don’t want to maintain/upload it to OBS and there isn’t a person willing to do it here, then… we’ll you’re out of luck.

Volunteer based stuff.

… I much prefer Clonezilla for backups.

From what i know clonezilla exists only in the form of live iso’s
Mondorescue and partimage are also installable applications.