Re: [expert] Extending / partition

2000-02-17 Thread Hoyt
Subject: Re: [expert] Extending / partition > > Okay I have seen a zillion ways to do this over > > the last couple of years and read hundreds of lines > > of mans, howto's, and email's, HOWEVER; > > > > I will ask this list for pointers again ! >

Re: [expert] Extending / partition

2000-02-16 Thread Sheldon Lee Wen
I'm not sure about the status of a logical volume manager for linux (I know one is/was in development) but with an LVM you can resize any volume or stretch it over multiple disks/paritions. Under linux however you may have to format to do the initial setup. Not sure, under HP-UX and some other UN

Re: [expert] Extending / partition

2000-02-16 Thread Bug Hunter
I think parted may do what you want. I saw a release e-mail about this for redhat. It may be on their site under contrib. On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, John Aldrich wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, you wrote: > > Okay I have seen a zillion ways to do this over > > the last couple of years and read hundr

Re: [expert] Extending / partition

2000-02-16 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, you wrote: > Okay I have seen a zillion ways to do this over > the last couple of years and read hundreds of lines > of mans, howto's, and email's, HOWEVER; > > I will ask this list for pointers again ! > > My / 3 gig partition is full. I have created another > ext2 fs of 2

Re: [expert] Extending / partition

2000-02-16 Thread WH Bouterse
Thanks Matt! Appreciate the help! Matt Stegman wrote: > > You can't "merge" two partitions into one. What you can do, however, is > move an entire directory tree (say, /usr or /home or /usr/local) over to > this new partition and mount the new partition on the original file > structure. No reb

Re: [expert] Extending / partition

2000-02-16 Thread Matt Stegman
You can't "merge" two partitions into one. What you can do, however, is move an entire directory tree (say, /usr or /home or /usr/local) over to this new partition and mount the new partition on the original file structure. No reboot necessary! For instance, if you wanted to move /usr/local ont

[expert] Extending / partition

2000-02-16 Thread WH Bouterse
Okay I have seen a zillion ways to do this over the last couple of years and read hundreds of lines of mans, howto's, and email's, HOWEVER; I will ask this list for pointers again ! My / 3 gig partition is full. I have created another ext2 fs of 2 gigs on the same HD. How do I merge it into The