FC1: how to increase the size of /usr filesystem
Terry Polzin
fox3ec208 at wideopenwest.com
Tue Mar 2 13:59:48 UTC 2004
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 08:12, DI Friedrich Reichhart wrote:
> I have a server with RAID 5 and now i put a 5th HD to the raid. In Linux
> the free space is now at the end of the Raid-HD (all 5 Disk are shown as
> one HD) after the end of the extended Partition. My last logical partition
> is the /usr filesystem and now i want to increase the size of /usr.
> Does anybody know how to do?
> Is there any tool to do with?
>
> Dipl.-Ing. Friedrich Reichhart
>
> --
> ** senior.reichhart at sdr.at , office at sdr.at / www.sdr.at
This is the only procedure I know if you aren't using LVM.
1) dump the fs to tape
2) boot in rescue mode
3) fdisk to increase the partition size mkfs to rebuild the fs and its super
blocks
4) restore
5) normal reboot
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