One of our servers are handled to us with not mounted for any directory. There was just 2 partitions. / and /boot. So i wanted to create a partition for /home. This is what i've done in steps.

I created a 30 gb file in dev and format it as ext3. Than mount -o loop, defaults,usrquota /dev/home /home. That was fine, now i get a /home partition but this time, the main / partition seems to be nearly full because of the 30 gb file system. I wonder if The style i am doing this is wrong.

As far as I understand it and from previous expierence, that is the way it works. The filesystem you created in /dev/home is 30GB which will count towards the / partition. The only other way of doing it is to get the datacenter to run fdisk or to restore the OS with new partitions.

I hope that helps.

Thank you, isn't it available to umount a ext3 file system and resize it remotely?

Originally posted by fcarsenal
Thank you, isn't it available to umount a ext3 file system and resize it remotely? Not remotely, no. I would think that the datacenter shouldn't have a problem doing it for you.