CentOS 5 :: Changing Partitions After Install?
Jul 29, 2009
We just got a dedicated server from 1&1 which came with a 64-bit CentOS 5 minimal system install. Only later, we found out that it's partitioned in a strange way:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md1 950M 902M 0 100% /
/dev/md5 4.7G 1.1G 3.7G 22% /usr
/dev/md6 4.7G 897M 3.8G 19% /var
/dev/md7 221G 4.8M 221G 1% /home
none 998M 0 998M 0% /tmp
How can we get it re-partitioned so that all available disk space is allocated to the / directory instead of /home? Is it possible at all?
The 1&1 support is saying that this is a standard install and won't help.
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