[SLL] Rearranging partitions on RAID1

[Geoff]

Mike Stunes wrote:
> I've got two drives in RAID1 on my box at home. When I set this box
> up, being unfamiliar with partitioning anything bigger than 40GB, I
> allocated / and /home about half-and-half, not realizing that
> everything in / would take up much less space than I thought it
> possibly might take, so now I've got / at about 6% full, and not
> growing, and /home about 26%, with lots of potential to grow much
> bigger. I'm trying to figure out the best way to rearrange these,
> keeping in mind I've got a RAID1 I can't screw up, and I would rather
> not risk all of my data in the process, naturally. I figure I can
> either use gparted on both drives, or use gparted on one drive and dd
> it to the other drive, or just completely back everything up and
> recreate the partitions, RAID, and filesystems from scratch. Anybody
> have any thoughts on the best and safest way to do this? Thanks in
> advance!
>
> Mike
I just cheat, and move some of my bigger folders to places with more room.
What I did was  I got and an extra drive and mounted it as /storage and
moved things like my mp3s my photos, and videos, then just created
sym-links in the original locations to the new locations. you could do
the same, Just make a /<something> and put stuff on your /.  It is quite
a bit safer, though not necessarily clean.

Geoff