Date:  Fri, 2 Nov 2007 17:11:28 -0000
From:  "Colin Jack" <colin (at mark) mainline.co.uk>
Subject:  [coba-e:11063] Re: Changing partition size
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dogsbody [mailto:dan (at mark) dogsbody.org]
> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 9:52 AM
> To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
> Subject: [coba-e:11058] Re: Changing partition size
> 
> 
> > Just out of interest (I'm not going to try it) ... how do I
> > grow/shrink/move partitions?
> >
> > If for example I just stuck another pair of mirrored drives in for
the
> > /home partition then how do I tell CentOS/BQ?
> 
> Depends if your using RAID or not.  I can't answer you of you are as I
> am still learning this myself however of you aren't and your using a
> later build of the CentOS/BQ CD then you should be using LVM.  You can
> read the HOW-TOS at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
> 
> For example, if your just adding space to a non-system partition you
can
> simply do this...
> 
>      * lvextend -L400G /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol06
>      * umount /backup
>      * e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol06
>      * resize2fs -p /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol06
>      * mount /backup
> 
> 
> Dan


Cheers - I will have a read of that.

Colin




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