Hi Giacomo: On the link you provided: ext2
If you are using LVM 1 with ext2 as the file system then you can use the e2fsadm command mentioned earlier to take care of both the file system and volume resizing as follows: # umount /home # e2fsadm -L-1G /dev/myvg/homevol # mount /home no mention about ext3, which is the filesystem I use (ext2 only for boot). In contrast. ext2/ext3 for expanding. thanks francesco On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Giacomo Mulas <gmu...@oa-cagliari.inaf.it>wrote: > 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) > _________________________________________________________________ >
