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 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
