Resizing partition...

[ashitpro]

This is my partition layout

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda11 487M 442M 20M 96% /
/dev/sda6 487M 19M 443M 4% /boot
tmpfs 467M 0 467M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda9 4.8G 3.1G 1.5G 68% /home
/dev/sda8 8.6G 7.9G 222M 98% /usr
/dev/sda7 9.5G 2.6G 6.5G 29% /var

my problem is with / partition...
I want to compile new kernel..
New modules goes in /lib/module directory..
Here space is very little..
My admin has screwed up this linux disk..

Is there any way to increase the size...

[micmast]

you could try to resize the partitions, but you might lose all your data. Another suggestion would be to place the content of / on a bigger disk and reconfigure the bootloader in the /boot partition
also take a look at the /etc/fstab file, reboot and try it out, otherwhise you could always go back to your original partition. It does require some free space or a new hard drive. But that is what I would try (had some bad experience with resizing)

[numberwhun]

If you end up having to shuffle the disk space around though, I recommend using gparted as its a really useful and good tool for this kind of thing.

Regards,

Jeff

[ashitpro]

Important thing is I don't want to lose data...
Does gparted provide this assurance?
And important thing is I have some free space after sda11 partition...
....gparted should love this....

[Nepomuk]

No tool for resizing partitions will ensure this, as far as I know. They all say, that probably nothing will happen, but you should really make a backup of your data, just to be on the safe side.

By the way, gparted (and other tools like qtparted) all use the command line tool parted, which you can find out more about via man parted. Which frontend you use is completely your choice. I personally prefer qtparted over gparted, but that's a personal and emotional choice, not a rational one.

Greetings,
Nepomuk

[Banderasky]

Backup before you partition

Important thing is I don't want to lose data...
Does gparted provide this assurance?
And important thing is I have some free space after sda11 partition...
....gparted should love this....

If you want to resize the partiton without data loss, which nobody could make assurance to you, you should backup those important files first in case of data loss after partitioning.