Siggi <Siggi.Hofstetter@t-online.de> wrote:
> I installed a Suse9.0 Linux for test reason as a dualboot installation!
> But the choice of partions was not very smart how it seems!

It looks fine to me, apart from the lack of a /usr/local.

> /dev/hda7 3075 150 2926 5% /

This is way under used. You only want something like 256MB for /. The
idea is to give it a low profile, so you can back it up easily, and
maintain an extra copy on disk, and expect it not to be hurt by disk
head smashes.

> /dev/hda8 157 37 121 24% /boot

Looks fine, though it's completely unnecessary nowadays, unless you run
multiple distros, in which case its a convenient place to keep the
common kernels you use. I have much bigger /boot parts because I have
dozens and dozens of different kernels. This makes /lib/modules also
a candidate for separation - or at least also placing on the boot
partition.

I would like to see /lib/modules moved to /boot/modules.

> /dev/hda9 2056 1282 774 63% /home

Yawn and whatever's fine for you.

> /dev/hda11 2565 1088 1478 43% /opt

What on earth do you have in there? Three copiesof staroffice. Anyway,
good sizing.

> /dev/hda12 502 35 468 7% /tmp

Way too small. You can't even fit an iso image in there. I'd make it a
1GB part, or link it to /var/tmp. In fact, yes, do that.

> /dev/hda13 12268 1661 10608 14% /usr

This is way oversize.

> /dev/hda10 3075 117 2959 4% /var

This is a bit oversize. I'd have it at 1 or 1.5GB (especially if tmp
is in there). You can get away with a lot less if you don't do a lot of
logging, don't have huge caches in there, don't do mail bigtime, etc.
etc.

> i wanna change the /usr partition to 6Gb instead of 12.

Go ahead.

> The filesystem is reiser.

You need a reiser resizing tool.

> It would be great if somebody could give me a step by step description for
> the resizing of the /usr partition.

Use a reiser resizing tool.

Does parted work? It does for ext2.

Peter