What you want is the program "parted" http://www.gnu.org/manual/parted-1.6.1/ . Backup your data before you use it. However if I were you I would either redo the whole hard drive or take that 6 gigs, repartition it and mount it on /usr and /var depending on your use. My guess is that your hda2 is mounted at / correct? and you dont have anything split up anywhere? If thats the case I would take that and split it into a .5 gig partition that you mount at /var, and take the remaining 5.5 and mount it on /usr. ----------------------------------------------------------------- I typed a bunch of stuff below this line before I realised you were only using two partitions not two hard drives. However I will keep it there as it might be useful to someone. ----------------------------------------------------------------- You would need to configure RAID level 0, you can do that eather with a hardware controller (which you probably dont have) or linux software RAID. I have personaly never done it because when I have wanted to do it its always been with a hardware raid controller. However keep in mind that RAID 0 will decrease your reliability due to the fact that if you loose one drive your whole system is hosed. For info on RAID goto www.tldp.org there are numerous documents there on the subject. However under linux you normaly don't need to do this like you are saying because you can simply mount the additional data in a different location to free up that space on your other drive. On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 10:40, Robert.Wultsch@asu.edu wrote: > More fun from me on filesystems. I am trying to ditched vfat, but as i do not > have another unix box in the house and do not have the first clue about how to > get samba working (that will wait for another day) I am copying my 6 gigs of > stuff into a vfat partition, and then copying it into a ext3 partition. > > How do I get me hda2 (ext3, 20 gigs) to eat my hda3 (vfat, 6 gigs) so that it is > one big hda2 (ext3, 26 gigs)? > > Or would this be easier with reiser or xfs? > > Thanks for any possible help... > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Entelin