Is it possible to repartition a single drive system remotely (over SSH)? Is it possible to resize current partitions? If realize this is probably complex, so i don't expect a direct answer as to "how", but if anyone could point in the direction of a resource i could learn from, I would greatly appreciate it.

Jake29

I've learned a lot, but so much more to go!

I haven't seen anything that does this.

Sure, you can repartition remotely, but then how are you going to reformat and reinstall? ;) Utilities are available for Linux to resize partitions, but I don't know what they're called since I've never needed to use them.

parted (http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html) will allow you to resize ext2 partitions. I dunno if it can do ext3 yet, cuz I dont use it. I have repartitioned remotely before The best way to do it, is dropdown to single user mode, tarball up everything on the partition, move it elsewhere either another partition, or send it somewhere remotely. Then repartition that partition, and so on. Basically you do a juggling act between partitions. I do not recommend doing / or /usr remotely, cuz if something breaks, you're kind of screwed.

-Dan