partition question

[Geoffrey Leach]

On 05/27/2012 12:45:45 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
> Hi, all.
> 
> I've Googled this question quite extensively & before I proceed I 
> thought I'd ask for an opinion. It's quite a common predicament so 
> apologies in advance if I'm creating noise.
> 
> I have a machine running Fedora 16 X86_64 which is a recent addition 
> &
> 
> now I need to use some of the unused space on the HD for another OS 
> (CentOS). When I originally installed Verne, I just accepted
> Anaconda's 
> "replace existing Linux system" so I have this:
> 
> # pvdisplay -v
>       Scanning for physical volume names
>     --- Physical volume ---
>     PV Name               /dev/sda2
>     VG Name               vg_sandstar
>     PV Size               74.04 GiB / not usable 10.00 MiB
>     Allocatable           yes (but full)
>     PE Size               32.00 MiB
>     Total PE              2369
>     Free PE               0
>     Allocated PE          2369
>     PV UUID               nRaEqV-MTHe-ArbR-OCwh-VKTw-vZjG-gX6phH
> 
> so as I understand it, my two viable options are a non-destructive 
> resize or a clean install & use Anaconda to create a blank partition
> for 
> use as the second OS (well, I do have a third: I have a brand new 
> 60GB
> 
> USB HD that could be used but I don't really want to go down that
> road).
> 
> The disk is 80GB & I have a 3.91GB swap, a 23.38GB home & root is
> 46.75. 
> Total disk space that is actually used is minimal, less than 10 GBs.
> 
> Possibly the easiest route would be to do a clean install but I'd
> really 
> like to try to see if I can successfully resize it as I've never 
> tried
> 
> it before.


I went around that tree a few months back, and as far as I could
discover there is no was to resize a partition. The parted 
documentation seemed to imply that resizing was supported, but at the 
end, no luck.