Hi Marco,
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Marco Shaw <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I haven't done sys admin in some time, and I just started a new job
> where I am doing it again.
>
> The story before (over 5 years ago) was that you couldn't resize root
> basically. Now with great stuff like LVM, it seems you can do some
> resizing from a boot CD and not have to tar/untar and hope for the
> best...
>
> Well, for whatever reason, I have a brand new RHEL5 machine, and they
> did *not* use LVM. So I guess I'm out of luck with doing a *simple*
> and "very likely to work" resize of root?
>
Is there free space left on your physical disk? If there is, and you're
running a filesystem and a kernel that supports online resizing, you should
be able to do it very simply.
man resize2fs
HTH,
Mike
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