Thanks all for the ideas and input! I think creating a test environment and ironing out all the details is very important and smart thing to do.
Another idea, since there's no hot spare hard drives is to install a new hard drive partitioned they way I want it and move everything over to it. Repartition the old hard drive, clone/mirror the new drive to the old drive and keep it as a hot spare. On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Robert Citek <robert.ci...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Bill Barry <b...@billbarry.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Robert Citek <robert.ci...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Bill Barry <b...@billbarry.org> wrote: > >>> Boot to a live disk. > >>> Use resize2fs to shrink the current partition, > >> > >> resize2fs will only shrink the filesystem, not the partition. You'll > >> still have to use fdisk or gparted for making the partition a bit > >> larger than the filesystem. > >> > >>> create the new partitions, > >> > >> At this point you may want to consider LVM. > >> > >>> boot up, > >> > >> Is this reboot needed? > > > > I think you need to reboot or run partprobe at this point. You also > > need to create the filesystem after the partitioning. > > And if you move the boot partition you should update grub. > > Good points. The devils in the details. Would be nice to simulate the > process in a VM. > > Regards, > - Robert > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
