On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 06:24 -0700, Richard Crawford wrote: > On Sunday 29 May 2005 03:00, Paul Howarth wrote: > > Why did you build the system with separate "fixed" partitions in > > addition to the main LVM partition? It's a shame, because if you had > > used LVM for everything (except /boot of course), it would be fairly > > easy to shuffle space about. > > Why? Because I had no idea what I was doing. ;-) Actually, I did know what > I was doing, but I had no idea what LVM was, so I just did what I'm used to > doing in Linux, which is messing with partitions. But LVM looks very, very > nice and easy to use. Relatively. Once you've used it, you'll never go back :-) > > I'd be inclined to (in rescue mode) move everything from your full > > 30G /var partition into the ample space you have in /, then > > change /dev/hda3 to a Linux LVM partition, and add that partition into > > VolGroup00. You could then, if you wished, create a new logical volume > > for /music and/or /var with the newly-available space in the volume > > group. You could also reduce size of the LogVol00 filesystem and volume > > to free up yet more space for additional volumes. > > > > The LVM HOWTO is well worth a read before doing anything as drastic as a > > reinstall. > > Cool. I'll definitely look this over. I'll definitely back up the music > files and other important stuff before going this route, but I really > appreciate the hints. Thanks. Could I convert the other non-boot > directories to logical volumes as well? Shouldn't be a problem. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
