merging partitions question

From: Canon (seti_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 09/30/03

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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:24:35 -0400

    Hello,

    I have a bit of a conundrum. I installed RH9 a while back and created
    appropriate partitions only to find that one of them is growing low on space
    so I was thinking of merging two partitions. Here's my present setup:

    hdb1 = /boot
    hdb2 = /
    hdb3 = swap
    hdb5 = /home
    hdb6 = /home/data
    hdb7 = /usr
    hdb8 = /var

    The partitions I need to merge are hdb7 and hdb2 since my /usr partition is
    filling up rapidly and I have only 1% usage of my "/" partition.

    Technically if I move /usr to my / and change the fstab values would that
    work? or are there some sort of associations to worry about (still kinda new
    to linux). BTW, how would I move all of /usr to /?
    (login as root in failsafe and "mv -R /usr / "?)

    Last - if this is the right way of doing it, how could I then physically merge
    the partition with another so as to recuperate the space left void in hdb7?

    Thanks for the help
    //Canon 

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