on 04/16/2006 09:07 PM David Timms wrote:
oleksandr korneta wrote:
The goal is to delete the fat32 partition and extend the ext3 partition
to the whole drive without losing the data. There is no way for me to
backup this data - it is 200Gb drive. Neither gparted nor qtparted
cannot handle this task (I assume these are based on the same lib).
Presumably, parted will fail as well.
Is there any tool for linux (preferably opensource) that is capable of
accomplishing of this task?
Logical volume management (LVM) is designed to help in just this sort of
task.
At partitioning you create a partition/s of type LVM (iirc) (the
physical volumes - or space to use). Then you create logical volumes
within the lvm physical volumes. The Logical Volumes can then span
multiple partitions, and other physical disks.
There is a gui tool to view this:System|Administration|Logical Volume
Management.
By default, FC5 seems to choose to make LVM partitions, which would make
it fairly easy. I don't know about converting existing partition/data
into LVM though ?
yep. This is the whole point.
I dont have any experience, with LVM (although this is not a problem). I
probably try it next time at some fresh install. But this time I have
linux box, which works for me just fine for a long time already. And I
don't want to mess anything up there.
The task is to add an additional drive and change the partition table in
a way I've mentioned. I believe that Partition Magic for windows can
handle such thing with no problem. But there is no windows here and I'm
wondering if there is anything similar for linux.
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regards,
Oleksandr Korneta
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