[COLUG] Partitioning Hard Drive

[Mark Erbaugh]

On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 17:46 -0400, Mark Erbaugh wrote:
> When I first installed Ubuntu Dapper on my notebook computer, I created
> a small partition for / and a large partition for /home. I am now close
> to filling my / partition and there is lots of space left on the /home
> partition.
> 
> Is there an easy way to increase or free up space on the / partition?
> Since I am the only user on the notebook, if I had to do over, I don't
> think I would create two partitions. Is that appropriate?

I figured this out. I booted the Live CD and used gparted.  It took a
little finagling as I had to move my / to another partition to make it
larger (the old one was at the end of the drive)

Mark