Re: [CentOS] Problem resizing partition of nfs volume

2010-08-12 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/12/10 2:56 PM, Dan Yamins wrote: Hi: I have an NFS volume that I'm trying to resize a partition on. Something about the fdisk process is corrupting something on the drive Before running fdisk, I can mount the volume find: $ mount /dev/sdo1 /home ... and the volume is mounted

Re: [CentOS] Problem resizing partition of nfs volume

2010-08-12 Thread David VĂ©jar
Enviado el: jueves, 12 de agosto de 2010 18:22 Para: CentOS mailing list Asunto: Re: [CentOS] Problem resizing partition of nfs volume On 08/12/10 2:56 PM, Dan Yamins wrote: Hi: I have an NFS volume that I'm trying to resize a partition on. Something about the fdisk process is corrupting something

Re: [CentOS] Problem resizing partition of nfs volume

2010-08-12 Thread Dan Yamins
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 6:21 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 08/12/10 2:56 PM, Dan Yamins wrote: Hi: I have an NFS volume that I'm trying to resize a partition on. Something about the fdisk process is corrupting something on the drive Before running fdisk, I can

Re: [CentOS] Problem resizing partition of nfs volume

2010-08-12 Thread Dan Yamins
Asunto: Re: [CentOS] Problem resizing partition of nfs volume On 08/12/10 2:56 PM, Dan Yamins wrote: Hi: I have an NFS volume that I'm trying to resize a partition on. Something about the fdisk process is corrupting something on the drive Before running fdisk, I can mount the volume find

Re: [CentOS] Problem resizing partition of nfs volume

2010-08-12 Thread Dan Yamins
instead, you should have used parted(8) or similar to expand the partition, then used resize2fs(8) to expand the file system on this partition to its new size. So I'm trying parted on a new, clean volume created from the snapshot, attached to /dev/sdm As I explained before, I can't do $

Re: [CentOS] Problem resizing partition of nfs volume

2010-08-12 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Thursday 12 August 2010 17:56, Dan Yamins wrote: I have an NFS volume that I'm trying to resize a partition on. I suggest you try Parted Magic: http://partedmagic.com/ It doesn't do anything you can't do from the command line, but it's much easier to use. -- Yves Bellefeuille

Re: [CentOS] Problem resizing partition of nfs volume

2010-08-12 Thread Dan Yamins
I was just shown the solution to my problem, using the sfdisk program instead of the fdisk or parted programs.Apparently parted could not work because the drive is not really SCSI, and the fdisk program is to incorrect and was overwriting a portion of the disk. however, sfdisk turns out to