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From: gerry@swift.cs.tcd.ie
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: increasing the size of the root partition
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.122711.7953@swift.cs.tcd.ie>
Date: 7 Jun 91 12:27:11 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin
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I would like to increase the /, /usr & /var partitions on our V4.0 system.
The obvious way to do this, it seems to me, is to boot from the standalone tape
and dump the file systems out, change the partitions sizes and then restore. Are
there any possible problems that I am overlooking?

					Gerry O'Brien,
					Dept. of Computer Science,
					Trinity College Dublin,
					Ireland

					gerry@cs.tcd.ie