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Resizing a logical partition....
From: |
Andy Hock |
Subject: |
Resizing a logical partition.... |
Date: |
Wed, 12 May 2004 04:48:34 -0400 |
I don't see any information about this. Here is a print of my hda (the only hd
in the pc):
Minor Start End Type FileSys Flags
1 0.031 54.909 primary ext2 boot
2 54.910 19461.555 extended
3
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.
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9 13939.242 14198.071 logical ext2
I did the make, got parted running, and attempted a 'resize 9 13939.242
16200.00'
It just gets ignored. It appears that there is about 4.3 gigs of empty space
in the extended partition minor=2, and minor=9 is my /var directory, which like
an idiot I made ridiculously small (don't ask me why...it was 4 years ago, and
I was prolly drunk at the time, or just general stupidity ;).
There's nothing in the docs I can find about resizing logical partitions. This
SHOULD be easy, since the partition I want to change is at the 'end' of the
extended partition (I guess that means toward the beginning of the disk).
Can someone explain to me how I accomplish this? I can't use the XWindow
RedHatAgent to update my system, since it insists on trying to store what's
downloaded into the /var folder; instead of being nice and allowing me to store
it someplace else, and THEN replacing the contents of /var.
My only other choice is to *ack* just reformat the stupid drive, and reinstall
RedHat 7.1.1, and then reinstal postgresql, etc, etc, ad nauseum...never mind
the network, samba stuff to attach to my w2k server printer..
It would be nice if there was a faq or something, but it's hard for me to
complain, since there's really nothing else out there that will resize
partitions safely, and I haven't exactly helped out on this. One suggestion
would be to add the LABEL name when using print. It makes it very hard to
'guess', or figure out, which 'minor' is the equivalent of which fstab
specification.
Thanks in advance for any help.
- Resizing a logical partition....,
Andy Hock <=