On Monday 13 June 2005 4:33 pm, Paul Howarth wrote: > Scot L. Harris wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 11:23, Gary Stainburn wrote: > >>Hi folks. > >> > >>I've got a FC3 system with default disk format as shown below. Is > >> it possible to add 2 more drives to the system so that the root > >> filesystem grows to use them? [snip] > You can use ext2online to resize a mounted ext2/ext3 filesystem, so a > rescue CD might not be needed (ext2online can't always resize a > partition but it'll tell you if it can't). > > The procedure basically involves using pvcreate to create LVM > physical volumes on the new disks, vgextend to add those physical > volumes to VolGroup00 and then lvextend to make logical volume > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 bigger. You can then resize the root > filesystem using either ext2online (if it works), or resize2fs from > rescue mode if ext2online refuses to cooperate. > > See the man pages for the various commands to see how they work. See > also the Linux LVM HOWTO: > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > Hi Paul. I'll look at the howto, but a quick question. I asume that ext2online and resize2fs will still work with the fs being ext3. Is this right? Gary > Paul. -- Gary Stainburn This email does not contain private or confidential material as it may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown and undisclosed purposes - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000
