On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Bill Barry <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 6:06 PM, MIke C. (Tech. Coord.)
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> "Can you expand on the description of your environment?  Do you have
>> two servers (one with the single partition and another with multiple
>> partitions)?"
>>
>> -- I wish it was only 1 server that was set up this way, but unfortunately
>> it is two servers and they both only have 1 hard drive and 1 large /
>> partition.
>>
>> "And, given that this is a server, you may want to consider using
>> logical volumes instead of partitions."
>>
>> - On a new install, I would certainly use LVM as it has many advantages,
>> however I don't know how to get there from here without the intermediary
>> step of re-partitioning.
>>
>> If there is a way, I'd love to know about it.
>>
>>
>
> Boot to a live disk. Use resize2fs to shrink the current partition,
> create the new partitions, boot up, move the data to the new
> partitions, edit fstab to match, reboot again.  You don't have to do
> all the partitions at once. If you don't have enough space you could
> do this one at a time for each partition.
>
> Bill

The gparted livecd will even give you a graphical interface to do the
repartitioning/resizing
http://gparted.org/download.php

Bill
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