Resizing those partitions!

[Paul Howarth]

On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 06:24 -0700, Richard Crawford wrote:
> On Sunday 29 May 2005 03:00, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > Why did you build the system with separate "fixed" partitions in
> > addition to the main LVM partition? It's a shame, because if you had
> > used LVM for everything (except /boot of course), it would be fairly
> > easy to shuffle space about.
> 
> Why?  Because I had no idea what I was doing.  ;-)  Actually, I did know what 
> I was doing, but I had no idea what LVM was, so I just did what I'm used to 
> doing in Linux, which is messing with partitions.  But LVM looks very, very 
> nice and easy to use.  Relatively.

Once you've used it, you'll never go back :-)

> > I'd be inclined to (in rescue mode) move everything from your full
> > 30G /var partition into the ample space you have in /, then
> > change /dev/hda3 to a Linux LVM partition, and add that partition into
> > VolGroup00. You could then, if you wished, create a new logical volume
> > for /music and/or /var with the newly-available space in the volume
> > group. You could also reduce size of the LogVol00 filesystem and volume
> > to free up yet more space for additional volumes.
> >
> > The LVM HOWTO is well worth a read before doing anything as drastic as a
> > reinstall.
> 
> Cool.  I'll definitely look this over.  I'll definitely back up the music 
> files and other important stuff before going this route, but I really 
> appreciate the hints.  Thanks.  Could I convert the other non-boot 
> directories to logical volumes as well?

Shouldn't be a problem.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>