Disk Partiotioning
Gustavo Seabra
seabra at ksu.edu
Mon Nov 22 17:38:33 UTC 2004
C. Linus Hicks wrote:
>On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 10:47 -0600, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
>
>
>>That was my second mistake ;-) I didn't use LVM... The way I saw it is,
>>since I only have one HD, why should I need LVM? Now, from your post, it
>>seems that LVM has advantages even for single HD, is that right?
>>
>>By the way, since I didn't use LVM, and wat to increase the size of /
>>(root) taking space from /home, am I just screwed?
>>
>>
>
>Not necessarilly, it depends mostly on your partition layout. What
>partitions have you defined - please give device (disk) names and mount
>points.
>
>If you are in a situation where you can either temporarily delete a
>partition after having backed it up, or shrink an existing one to create
>a new one, then you should have some options available to you.
>
>Do a "man resize2fs" and read that.
>
>
>
Thanks. I'm not at the computer I want to change now but, as soon as I
get there (probably tonight) I'll check this and send to you. Thanks!
Gustavo.
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