I posted a reply to the list, but I don't see it. Check out this HOWTO. http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Expanding_Linux_Partitions_with_LVM
I have expanded with lvmextend and ext2online, but it has been a while. brian On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 01:56:28PM -0700, David Spencer, Internet Handyman wrote: > I'm hoping that somebody can help me by directing me to a step-by-step > cookbook of some sort for what I'm trying to do. Here's the summary: > > We've got a Dell SC1425 1U server. The system has dual 300GB SATA drives > that I've configured in a software RAID 1. It's running CentOS 4.5 and > is pretty much up to date. We've also got Plesk installed on it and > it's purpose to exist is to host websites. > > We recently got this idea to replace the 300GB drives with 500GB drives. > My programmer and I thought that the best way to accomplish this would > be to use Linux Ghost to copy the contents of the drives. So we pulled > one of the 300's and replaced it with the 500. Then we ghosted the 300 > to the 500. Next we replaced the 300 with the other 500 and used ghost > again to copy the data on the first 500 to the second. We rebooted the > system and it worked! Well, almost. > > The problem was that Linux Ghost did a fantastic job of duplicating > the exact dimensions of the 300 drives onto the 500. So we had a system > with partitions that were only 300GB in size. Obviously we wanted to > take advantage of all that extra space. And that's where things went > terribly wrong. > > We've tried a number of things from using Linux Ghost to expand the > partition to using fdisk and dd to redefine the partitions and then > copy the data from one of the 300's using an external USB 2.0 drive. > Nothing works. Where did we go wrong? > > Your assistance is much appreciated, > > > -- Dave Spencer, PageWeavers > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
