With the coming release of Fedora 8, I needed to prep my desktop for the impending distribution upgrade. Since my desktop was running Fedora Core 6, I needed to bring it up to date to Fedora 7.
You know, I've been hungering for some good old hard numbers to provide a major motivational kick in the butt and scream: "Yes, you ARE making a dent!!!"
Partitions, in the way they are commonly used, are not flexible. The solution is called Logical Volumes, managed with LVM, the Logical Volume Manager, and used with the Device-Mapper.