resizing / partition

[Yohann Desquerre]

If you want to have "hot resible" partitions i advise you to use
LVM+reiserfs

in parted of fdisk you would have 2 parts one with 100M (for the / boot)
in ext2 or ext3 and then the rest of your disk in LVM (type is 8e)


on the LVM part you will create with diskdruid a volume group (maybe
vg00) in which you will create the following logical volume :

RootLv(mounted on /)
VarLV(Monted on /var)
TmpLv(Mounted on /tmp)
UsrLV(Mounted on /usr)
HomeLv(Mounted on /home)
SwapLv(the swap)




Then when you 'll be able to boot your system you'll easily extends for
example /home with this command (your vg called "vg00") :

lvextend -L +100M -n HomeLv #This extend the LV
resize_reiserfs /dev/vg00/HomeLv# This will extend the fs

Your /home has been grown of 100M without umout it.....THAT HAPYNESS !!!


enjoy FC1 




Le mer 21/01/2004 à 23:42, Lorenzo Prince a écrit :
> Is it possible to resize the / partition using Parted?  I would like to
> repartition the hdd on my laptop running the latest FC1.  It currently has the
> following partitions:
> 
> 1 /boot
> 2 /
> 3 swap
> 
> These partitions take all the space on the hdd with / being the largest one.  I
> would like to resize the / partition so that I can add a new partitionfor
> testing  purposes.  I tried using Parted to do this but it gave me a warning
> that said it couldn't cleanly unmount the partition and that I should e2fsck.  I
> stopped at this point, as I was afraid of losing data.  Was this warning a
> problem?  Can I still resize this partition even though it is mounted?  If not,
> is there another way to resize the partition without having to use a live CD of
> some kind?
> 
> Thanks,
> PRINCE