How about booting from other Linux (such as Live cd or diskette or something) and using the available tools such as - parted to resize /
:) --- Oleg Kobets Network Administrator Breakthrough LTD. 054-747132 03-6349922 Ext 26 "Black hole is God divided by zero" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arie Folger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Linux-IL mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 5:43 PM Subject: resizing / > Hi, > > I want to grow the / partition. When I wanted to resize partitions in the past > (which did happen a number of times to /usr and /home as I weaned myself from > windows and the available tools grew by leaps and bounds), I just copied the > content of the partition, using cp -a, to a directory on another partition (I > may have used tar zcf if I only had space on a vfat partition), destroyed the > partition, recreated it with more sectors (typically the new secttors came > from another partition that moved after eating some vfat for breakfast ;-)), > and finally copied the contents back to the new partition. > > This is obviously inappropriate for /, because I can't unmount /. I tried to > use ext2fsadm, but it wants a file created by vgscan. I read the docs, and > they require me to create logical volumes with vgcreate. At this point I am > slowly getting lost, so does anybody have quick instructions on this one? > > I am using a RH8.0 on a amd k2-550, and my drive is (from dmesg): > hda: FUJITSU MHK2120AT, ATA DISK drive > hda: 23579136 sectors (12073 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=1467/255/63, UDMA(33) > > > Thanks, > > Arie Folger > -- > It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man > who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as > he is already like this, such a man is no better than a vegetable. > -- Book IV of Aristotle's Metaphysics > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
