[plug] Disk resize question

[Chris Griffin]

Thanks for the responses everyone. I am reading the LVM doco now so I can
work out how to do it.

Regards,
Chris

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Arie Hol <arie99 at ozemail.com.au> wrote:

>
>
> On 6 Mar 2008 at 13:28, Ian Kent wrote:
>
> >
> > On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 12:16 +0900, Chris Griffin wrote:
> > > Greetings once again,
> > >
> > > I am using Fedora 8 and VirtualBox. I had a 6GB disk defined and got
> to
> > > the point of having only about 107MB of space left. I have defined a
> > > second disk of 7GB and done all the necessary to duplicate the
> partition
> > > definitions and copied the contents of the partitions across (it had
> > > default partitioning from install time). I can now boot the new disk
> but
> > > it still does not show the extra space.
> > >
> > > [root at localhost ~]# df -h
> > > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
> > >                            4.7G  4.3G  107M  98% /
> > > /dev/sda1             190M   19M  162M  11% /boot
> > > tmpfs                   252M     0  252M   0% /dev/shm
> > > [root at localhost ~]#
> > >
> > >
> > > I used dd to copy partitions (eg.     dd if=/dev/sda2
> > > of=/dev/sdb2    )
> > > Did I miss something?
> >
> > I'm not familiar with VirtualBox but why are you trying to replace the
> > disk? Why not just add it to the volume group and expand the logical
> > volume?
> >
> > Ian
> >
>
> If you are using LVM, you do not need to mess around around with
> partitioning and using dd to copy/move stuff around.
>
> LVM has all the tools you need to 'add space' to your filesystems
> regardless of your partitions and hard drive orientation and numbers - so
> long as you have the available space within your system ...........
>
> For introduction to LVM - goto :
>
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-lvm2/
>
> For tutorials on using LVM - goto :
>
> Part 1:
>
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-lvm/
>
> Part 2 :
>
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-lvm2.html
>
> These tutorials should get you in the right direction
>
> HTH
>
> Regards Arie
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