Arie Folger wrote:
Hi,
I want to grow the / partition. When I wanted to resize partitions in the past (which did happen a number of times to /usr and /home as I weaned myself from windows and the available tools grew by leaps and bounds), I just copied the content of the partition, using cp -a, to a directory on another partition (I may have used tar zcf if I only had space on a vfat partition), destroyed the partition, recreated it with more sectors (typically the new secttors came from another partition that moved after eating some vfat for breakfast ;-)), and finally copied the contents back to the new partition.
This is obviously inappropriate for /, because I can't unmount /. I tried to use ext2fsadm, but it wants a file created by vgscan. I read the docs, and they require me to create logical volumes with vgcreate. At this point I am slowly getting lost, so does anybody have quick instructions on this one?
I am using a RH8.0 on a amd k2-550, and my drive is (from dmesg):
hda: FUJITSU MHK2120AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: 23579136 sectors (12073 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=1467/255/63, UDMA(33)
Thanks,
Arie Folger
Hmm, you may try to:
1) Backup the current / to another partition. 2) Create a new (bigger) partition 3) In /etc/fstab (as root) change / partition to the one you created 4) Then, safely remove the old partition. Hope that helps... -- <a href="http://www.rootshell.be/~eg";>Eliran G</a> ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
