On Thu, 22 May 2014, Francesco Pietra wrote:
Hi Robert; Could you be so kind to provide - at your convenience - some detail on the commands needed, or give a link? I imagine that umount and mount are needed
You can find most of what you need here: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/commontask.html look at "reducing a logical volume" to see how to reduce some other volume (e.g. home) to make some additional room for your root, then "extending a logical volume" to extend your root. Note that in most cases (e.g. unless you are using btrfs which must be resized while mounted) filesystems must be unmounted to be resized. This means that you will have to boot your computer from a some live media, so that you can operate on the root filesystem. For this kind of tasks I used to use parted magic, booting from a usb stick. I see that it has become a commercial product now, so I guess you can use any functional live linux distro which includes lvm and resize2fs. However, since it's cheap (5 US$) you may still want to try parted magic and keep it around as a convenient toolchest for offline maintenance of disks, partitions, arrays etc. Ciao Giacomo -- _________________________________________________________________ Giacomo Mulas <gmu...@oa-cagliari.inaf.it> _________________________________________________________________ INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari via della scienza 5 - 09047 Selargius (CA) tel. +39 070 71180244 mob. : +39 329 6603810 _________________________________________________________________ "When the storms are raging around you, stay right where you are" (Freddy Mercury) _________________________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/alpine.deb.2.10.1405221720490.11...@capitanata.oa-cagliari.inaf.it