<html> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10 (filtered)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>I’ve never done it myself BUT. The following link has some information on expanding partitions and file systems using parted.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><a href="http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/power/en/ps1q03_michael">http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/power/en/ps1q03_michael</a></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Hope this helps.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Jim T.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p> <div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> rhn-users-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces@redhat.com] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Jim Ruddell<br> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Friday, July 01, 2005</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>11:08 AM</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> rhn-users@redhat.com<br> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [rhn-users] Expanding a partition</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>All,</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>I’m wondering if any of you have expanded a partition with out data loss with out using LVM. I have expanded the space on my SAN and Linux recognizes the space. Red Hat support tells me I have to blow away my existing data and partition and create new ones. Any thoughts? I was certain that an ext2 file system could be expanded. I’m running RHEL 3 BTW. </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>Thanks,</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>Jim Ruddell</span></font></p> </div> </div> </body> </html>