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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.
If you do need to rebuild, may I suggest another alternative.
~ - Back up your current site using cpio, uucp, rsync, whatever
~ - Reformat your existing drive using LVM
~ - Restore your existing system exactly as it was before
now this should take you a couple of hours, but will give you an incredible amount of flexibility later. If you need additional space, simply create additional partitions, on this or new drives, and add them to the LVM volume set. Expandable drive system without having to actually repartition your drive.
Common problem with new Linux users is that they try to apply Windows solutions to Linux problems. All drives mount as one tree in Linux, so separate partitions are less of an issue. Couple that with better partition management, and there is no need to increasing the partition size as there would be in Windows. Welcome to a better, more stable OS. :-D
HTH
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