Re: [ilugd] How to increase /root partition size in Ubun tu 8.04

2009-05-21 Thread Ramkumar R
bash$ mkdir /new bash$ mount /dev/mapper/VG00/LogVol00 /new bash$ reboot Mounting a filesystem and rebooting will achieve nothing. What were you trying to do here anyway? grub Read the GRUB manual. I'm guessing that GRUB stage 2 is looking for a kernel that doesn't exist. You can try

Re: [ilugd] How to increase /root partition size in Ubun tu 8.04

2009-05-20 Thread Ramkumar R
Do you recommend putting / on a LVM device? No. The LVM partitions I maintain are: /home /home/music /home/video /usr /usr/local /tmp /var /root (swap) No, /boot should not be on LVM. and that is the catch. /boot in most installations is not on a separate partition. I personally hate

Re: [ilugd] How to increase /root partition size in Ubun tu 8.04

2009-05-20 Thread Neha Sharma
Hi I have a system which was dual boot and had the following configuration /dev/sda1 NTFS /dev/sda2 NTFS /dev/sda3 linux /dev/sda4 extended /dev/sda5 lvm The filesystem got crashed, now i am trying to recover it without corrupting windows partition. I

Re: [ilugd] How to increase /root partition size in Ubun tu 8.04

2009-05-20 Thread Neha Sharma
Hi I have a system which was dual boot and had the following configuration /dev/sda1 NTFS /dev/sda2 NTFS /dev/sda3 linux /dev/sda4 extended /dev/sda5 lvm The filesystem got crashed, now i am trying to recover it without corrupting windows partition. I

[ilugd] How to increase /root partition size in Ubun tu 8.04

2009-05-19 Thread Leena
Hi all, Is there any way I can increase /root partition's size after installation, using gparted? or anyway to change directory for default installation files from /root to /home I have Ubuntu 8.04 in a system having Hard disk of size 40GB. I used manual partition option and following is how

Re: [ilugd] How to increase /root partition size in Ubun tu 8.04

2009-05-19 Thread Ramkumar R
Is there any way I can increase /root partition's size after installation, using gparted? gparted will do this fine. Next time, consider implementing LVM to resize partitions on-the-fly. -- Artagnon (.com) ___ ilugd mailinglist --

Re: [ilugd] How to increase /root partition size in Ubun tu 8.04

2009-05-19 Thread Arun Khan
On Tuesday 19 May 2009, Ramkumar R wrote: Is there any way I can increase /root partition's size after installation, using gparted? gparted will do this fine. Next time, consider implementing LVM to resize partitions on-the-fly. Do you recommend putting / on a LVM device? -- Arun Khan

Re: [ilugd] How to increase /root partition size in Ubun tu 8.04

2009-05-19 Thread Devendra Laulkar
Hi, Is there any way I can increase /root partition's size after installation, using gparted? gparted will do this fine. Next time, consider implementing LVM to resize partitions on-the-fly. Do you recommend putting / on a LVM device? Should not be a problem. AFAIK, You need a

Re: [ilugd] How to increase /root partition size in Ubun tu 8.04

2009-05-19 Thread Arun Khan
On Wednesday 20 May 2009, Devendra Laulkar wrote: Hi, Is there any way I can increase /root partition's size after installation, using gparted? gparted will do this fine. Next time, consider implementing LVM to resize partitions on-the-fly. Do you recommend

Re: [ilugd] How to increase /root partition size in Ubun tu 8.04

2009-05-19 Thread Mani A
Ramkumar R artag...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way I can increase /root partition's size after installation, using gparted? gparted will do this fine. Next time, consider implementing LVM to resize partitions on-the-fly. Better still get the latest parted magic cd and do it from that. Of

Re: [ilugd] How to increase /root partition size in Ubun tu 8.04

2009-05-19 Thread Raj Mathur
On Tuesday 19 May 2009, Arun Khan wrote: On Tuesday 19 May 2009, Ramkumar R wrote: gparted will do this fine. Next time, consider implementing LVM to resize partitions on-the-fly. Do you recommend putting / on a LVM device? I had that for a couple of years and it was more trouble than it