Linux Partitioning Issue

Thomas Fess dfezz1 at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 29 15:43:24 UTC 2008


Are you using LVM?


--- On Wed, 12/24/08, Geofrey Rainey <Geofrey.Rainey at tvnz.co.nz> wrote:

> From: Geofrey Rainey <Geofrey.Rainey at tvnz.co.nz>
> Subject: Linux Partitioning Issue
> To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 8:55 PM
> I have a system with a raid 5 array which I have extended
> using HP array
> Configuration utility tools. You can see from the output of
> fdisk below
> That the disk has extra space:
> 
> Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 366.8 GB, 366870733824 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 44602 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>            Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks  
> Id  System
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p1   *           1          13      104391  
> 83  Linux
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p2              14        2563    20482875  
> 8e  Linux
> LVM
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p3            2564        2690     1020127+ 
> 82  Linux
> swap / Solaris
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p4            2691       26761   193350307+ 
>  5  Extended
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p5            2691       26761   193350276  
> 8e  Linux
> LVM
> 
> However because of the limited size of the extended
> partition I am
> unable to
> use the extra space, I receive the following error:
> 
> Command (m for help): n
> No free sectors available
> 
> Command (m for help):
> 
> Presumably I have to remove partition 5 and also the
> extended partition
> 4, then resize
> the extended partition to use the extra space. However
> I'm concerned
> that I'll loose all
> the data on partition 5, is there a way around this? I am
> wondering if I
> specify the start
> and end cylinders of partition 5 to be the same size will
> the data be
> preserved?
> 
> Regards,
> 		
> Geofrey Rainey.
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