apologies for my ignorance

[David Leuser II]

Hi
I am desperate to resize a partition on my new rh7.2 server, and know
almost nothing about partitioning. (familiar with deleting/creating DOS
partitions in FDISK, but that's the extent of it)...

I would REALLY REALLY appreciate it if any wise linux gurus could take me
under your wing...

I want to grow /home (Minor #2) by 4.5 gb.  I was thinking I would resize
/usr (minor #5) to be smaller (change the end from 10260 to 5760) to get
the space to do this.  That's when i rebooted and got nasty errors i
didn't understand, resized it back, and breathed a sigh of relief at my
good luck that fixed it... But now I don't know what to do? Whilst trying
to resize, partent was spitting scary warnings at me like 'failed to
cleanly unmount' or something to that effect.

Thanks for any help you can offer...  Oh yeah, it's a hardware raid
mirror, but since the raid is at the hardware level that should be
invisible to parted right???

*** Print Statement from parted ***

Using /dev/sda
Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/sda is
2212/255/63.  Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M.
(parted) print
Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-17355.750 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
1          0.031     54.909  primary   fat16
2         54.910   1082.504  primary   ext3
3       1082.505   1106.037  primary   ext3        boot
4       1106.038  17351.455  extended              lba
5       1106.068  10260.263  logical   ext3
6      10260.294  15743.386  logical   ext3
7      15743.417  16770.981  logical   linux-swap
8      16771.012  17280.856  logical   ext3
9      17280.888  17343.610  logical   ext3
(parted)
*** ***


________________________________________
David M. Leuser, II
Assistant Network Administrator
New Hampton School
(603) 744-3182 x121
address@hidden
________________________________________
"Picture the root account as a magic hat that gives you lots of power,
with which you can, by waving your hands, create or destroy entire cities.
Because it is easy to wave your hands in a destructive manner, it is not a
good idea to wear the magic hat when it is not needed, despite the
wonderful feeling. " -- Gnome User's Guide