how to resize/grow an existing partition

[Tim]

On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 12:54 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Isn't this precisely the reason that the system defaults to installing 
> on LVM now?  The old-school way would have been to create a new 
> partition and filesystem in the new space and mount it as /home or 
> something.  I thought the point of LVM was that you could grow it - and 
> then the filesystem(s) it contains more or less non-destructively.

LVM would help if you wanted to add a drive, but doesn't help (in this
case) if you want to replace a drive.

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