(Top posting) Thanks for the comments back. It seems this is possible after all. I should have mentioned that this was a VMware VM guest, so I'll need to research the FS increase based on that, and verify what kind of space may still be available on the device/datastore.
Marco On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 1:29 PM, 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? > > Marco > -- *Microsoft MVP - Windows PowerShell https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Marco.Shaw *Co-Author - Sams Windows PowerShell Unleashed 2nd Edition *Blog - http://marcoshaw.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
