how to increase existing partition ?

[Tim Writer]

lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org (Lennart Sorensen) writes:

> On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 03:03:51PM -0500, Tim Writer wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> If you used XFS or (I think) JFS, you wouldn't even have to shutdown to
> single user and unmount the filesystem to resize it.

Yeah, I know.  IIRC, reiser has this capability too.

> advantage of the big boys filesystems. :)  I have run resize2fs on a
> 500GB drive resizing it to 1000GB (on LVM).  It took about 5 hours.

Imagine how long it would have taken to archive to tape, repartion, and
restore.

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