Linux: Combine two partitions?
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This workstation is running Fedora 11. It has 4 HDDs raided into 4 partitions:
/ (31 gig)
/boot (134 meg)
/data (140 gig)
/FC12 (31 gig)
The previous employee that used my current workstation set it up this way. He apparently created the FC12 partition to test a Fedora 12 installation. I don't need Fedora 12 so I wiped that partition and now I'm wondering if its possible for me to combine the /FC12 partition into the / partition, so that the / partition will now be 62 gigs.
Is this possible? If so, how? Can it be done w/o reinstalling the OS?
I've toyed with Fedora's LVM admin interface but it seems very basic and there doesn't seem to be anything about combining partitions. I've also messed with other HDD utilities that are in Fedora (Palimpsest Disk Utlity) but all it seems to be able to do is mount and umount partitions.
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