Disk Partiotioning

[Gustavo Seabra]

Keith R. Evans wrote:

> If you use Logical Volumn manager (LVM), then you can automatically 
> resize the partition. Parted is suppose to do it for you, but I do not 
> have a lot of faith in the tool, so what I usually do is create a new 
> partition with the size  I want, and copy the contents of the old 
> partition to the new partition.  After creating the new partition, 
> update your fstab with the new partition and reboot your system with 
> the new partition replacing the old. You can then mount the old 
> partition to a temporary mount point and drop it. Do not unmount the 
> old because the system knows about it until the reboot when it will 
> point to the new partition.  If it is not a critical partition like 
> /var /boot /, /tmp, or swap, then you can just umount it and mount the 
> new partition on the old mount point.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gustavo Seabra" <seabra at ksu.edu>
> To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 11:30 AM
> Subject: Disk Partiotioning
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there any way to repartition the disk AFTER installing the system? 
>> I tried QTParted, but it doesn't repartition ext3 filesystems.
>>
>> Thansk,
>> Gustavo.
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>
That was my second mistake ;-) I didn't use LVM... The way I saw it is, 
since I only have one HD, why should I need LVM? Now, from your post, it 
seems that LVM has advantages even for single HD, is that right?

By the way, since I didn't use LVM, and wat to increase the size of / 
(root) taking space from /home, am I just screwed?

Thanks,
            Gustavo.

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