how to increase existing partition ?

[Tim Writer]

Fraser Campbell <fraser-Txk5XLRqZ6CsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org> writes:

> On January 17, 2004 09:58 am, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 
> > /data.  Keeps life simple and quite reliable.  Using LVM and resizeable
> > filesystems is another way to deal with it and quite useful to learn.
> 
> Absolutely.  I haven't tried lvm yet but I do hear good things about it.

LVM definitely makes life easier and, if you have some unpartitioned space
left on your disk, a conversion to LVM is fairly simple.  There's an article
with step by step instructions on IBM's Developer Works site and I think the
LVM HOWTO also covers this conversion.

I installed my notebook (single 30GB disk) and my desktop (two 80GB disks,
mirrored) using LVM for just this reason.  I was tired of continually
repartitioning, messing with symlinks, etc.  Now, if I need more space in
/usr (for example), I shutdown to singler user, unmount /usr (another good
reason to separate it from /), extend the relevant logical volume, resize the
file system (with resize2fs), remount it, and I'm done.  Typically, it's a
five minute process.  Now, as long as my file systems are large enough for a
base installation, I really don't care how big they are.

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