Lucas Chan wrote:
Hi,
I recently signed up with a super-cheap dedicated server company to run one
of my personal sites. The box was pre-installed with FC2.
Some of the partitions they set up on it are ridiculously small. I
contacted them saying:
"I'm quickly running out of space on a couple of partitions and need them to
be resized. I understand this needs to be performed at the console with a
boot disk so I'm submitting a ticket to you guys."
They responded saying:
"We cannot resize the partitions without reformatting/reimaging the drive."
Am I missing something obvious? I thought resizing partitions was quite an
easy thing to do with parted? Are there some oddities with resizing
partitions in Fedora that I'm not aware of, or am I just getting the quality
technical support you'd expect from an el-cheapo hosting company?
The RHEL parted docs I found indicate to me that this is a simple process:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s
1-parted-resize-part.html
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Lucas Chan
Well, you'd have to do it from a rescue console, or with a system rescue
CD... Basically due to fdisk and mounted filesystems... So unless you
have access to the machine physically, I don't know how could you do that.
