[CentOS] Resizing / partition ?

2009-12-07 Thread armann
Hi. I know this has probably been discussed a lot so I'm sorry, noob here. I found a good tutorial here: http://fedorasolved.org/Members/zcat/shrink-lvm-for-new-partition My only problem is understanding this. To calculate the new End sector, ADD the partition Start sector to the PV

[CentOS] resizing partition

2008-05-24 Thread Al Sparks
I'm going to have to resize a partition (shrink it) to make room for more swap space. This is actually not too big of a deal, since we're not talking about a system partition (/, /var, /usr, etc), but one where an application resides. So I won't even have to go to rescue mode to do this. I can

Re: [CentOS] resizing partition

2008-05-24 Thread Barry Brimer
I'm going to have to resize a partition (shrink it) to make room for more swap space. This is actually not too big of a deal, since we're not talking about a system partition (/, /var, /usr, etc), but one where an application resides. So I won't even have to go to rescue mode to do this. I can