I want increase the space of home folder - plz help me regarding this

Wed Aug 9 10:28:23 UTC 2006

  There are two ways. Either you can make a new partition in your new hard disk and change your home partition or you can create a LVM for home directory.

  1>
  Enter single-user mode. 
  # init 1

  Create a new partition in your new disk to be used as new home partition (let the partition be /dev/hdc1). Make file system in that partition

#mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hdc1

  Make a temp directory.
  #mkdir /mnt/temp

  Mount your new partition to temp directory 
  #mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/temp/

  Copy home directory contents to new partition
  #cp -a /home/*  /mnt/temp

  After copying umount both hdc1 and home directory.
  #umount /home
  #umount /mnt/temp

  Change your fstab entry

#

# File: /etc/fstab

#

 #/dev/hdb2 /home ext3  defaults 1 2

 /dev/hdc1 /home  ext3  defaults 1 2

Execute

#mount –a

 Go back to runlevel 5.

#init 5.

 Disadvantage of this method is your previous home partition will be unused.(But you can used it for some other purpose)
  2>
  Enter single-user mode. 
  # init 1

  Backup your home directory.
  #mkdir /backup
  #cp –a /home /backup

  Unmount your home partition.
  #umount /home

  Using fdisk set your /dev/hdb2 partition type to 8e.

  Make a partition in your new disk as per your need (let it be /dev/hdc1). Using fdisk set /dev/hdc1 partition type to 8e.

  Define Each Physical Volume

# pvcreate /dev/hdb2

pvcreate -- physical volume "/dev/hdb2" successfully created

# pvcreate /dev/hdc1

pvcreate -- physical volume "/dev/hdc1" successfully created

  Run Vgscan

# vgscan

vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)

#

Create A Volume Group For the PVs

# vgcreate lvm1 /dev/hdc1 /dev/hdb2

Volume group "lvm1" successfully created

Create A Logical Volume From The Volume Group

# vgdisplay lvm1

--- Volume group ---

VG Name               lvm1

VG Access             read/write

VG Status             available/resizable

VG #                  0

MAX LV                256

Cur LV                0

Open LV               0

MAX LV Size           255.99 GB

Max PV                256

Cur PV                2

Act PV                2

VG Size               848 MB

PE Size               4 MB

Total PE              212

Alloc PE / Size       0 / 0

Free  PE / Size       212 / 848 MB

VG UUID               W7bgLB-lAFW-wtKi-wZET-jDJF-8VYD-snUaSZ

Using lvcreate create logical volume

# lvcreate -l 212 lvm1 -n lv0

Format The Logical Volume

# mkfs -t ext3 /dev/lvm1/lv0

Mount your new logical volume to /home directory

# mount /dev/lvm1/lv0 /home

Copy back your data from /backup.

#cp –a /backup /home.

Update fstab.

#

# File: /etc/fstab

#

#/dev/hdb2 /home ext3  defaults 1 2

/dev/lvm1/lv0  /home  ext3  defaults 1 2

Execute 

#mount –a

#init 5

Anil Sawale <asawale at cautel.com> wrote:
  Hi!

I installed RedHat 9.0 

I want to increase the HDD space for /home

we have only three partions as below
we want to increase the partition space of /dev/hdb2

How I can increase space, I have another HDD 10.2 GB

Anil Sawale
Sys Admin
Cautel Web Sol
Navi Mumbai

Disk /dev/hdb: 10.2 GB, 10204766208 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1240 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 14 1173 9317700 83 Linux
/dev/hdb3 1174 1206 265072+ 82 Linux swap

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Bhagyashri Bijwe
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 1:58 PM
To: Roberto A. Foglietta
Cc: busybox at busybox.net; redhat-list at redhat.com;
soekris-tech at lists.soekris.com
Subject: Re: No more tasks for init ---- sleeping forever

Hi,
Thanks for reply.
I am using busybox-1.00-pre4 instead of busybox-1.00 because I
have product on gcc version 2.96 and busybox-1.00 required GLIBC_2.3.
I tried

> try to execute ash instead of init
>mv /sbin/init /sbin/init.old
> echo "#!/bin/sh
>while true; /bin/ash; done" > /sbin/init
>chmod a+x /sbin/init

But,It gives

Going to execute /sbin/init
sh:

It gives blinking cursor.It does nothing afterwards.
Does it mean I have to execute init? I tried to type something, it
does nothing unlike normal shell.
Plz help me.

On 8/9/06, Roberto A. Foglietta wrote:
> Bhagyashri Bijwe wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I made distribution for Soekris4521 using linux2.2.16,
> > UClibc0.9.19 and busybox-1.00-pre4.
>
> Why you use busybox-1.00-pre4?
>
> The "pre4" means it is not stable but the 4th try to deliver
> busybox-1.00. I suggest to use busybox-1.00
>
> try to execute ash instead of init
>
> mv /sbin/init /sbin/init.old
> echo "#!/bin/sh
> while true; /bin/ash; done" > /sbin/init
> chmod a+x /sbin/init
>
> or try this
>
> > etc/init.d/rcS is
> >
> > mount -t proc none /proc
> while true; /bin/ash; done
>
> an try to execute init by hand
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Roberto A. Foglietta
> http://roberto.foglietta.name
> http://linux.genova.it
>

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Networking and Internet Software Group,
Centre for Research and Development,
Pune,India

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