On 2013-04-01, Yves S. Garret <yoursurrogategod at gmail.com> wrote: > > $ df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/vg_ysg-lv_root > 47G 8.8G 36G 20% / > tmpfs 948M 372K 947M 1% /dev/shm > /dev/sda1 485M 62M 398M 14% /boot > /dev/mapper/vg_ysg-lv_home > 4.6G 2.7G 1.7G 63% /home > > What I don't understand is why is /home so tiny and how can I re-partition > this without having to nuke and rebuild my machine? I doubt anyone can tell you why /home is so tiny. But depending on the filesystem used, you may be able to resize on the fly, without even needing a reboot. The LVM HOWTO is a bit out of date, but describes the process here: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/extendlv.html Growing XFS filesystems online is required; they can't be grown offline. Growing ext4 online should be easy, but I've only tested it once in CentOS 6. As Timo notes, you should have a backup before proceeding in any case. I believe there are GUI tools to manipulate LVM and filesystems (system-config-lvm IIRC), but I haven't used this tool so can't give you any helpful guidance. You can put everything on one filesystem if you wish. This is mostly a matter of personal taste for many desktop uses (and some server uses). --keith -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us