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Philip Prindeville wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I kickstarted a computer with the following:
>
> #clearpart --linux --drives=hdd
> #part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --asprimary
> #part pv.15 --size=29957 --asprimary
> #part pv.9 --size=8092 --asprimary
> #volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.9
> #volgroup VolGroup01 --pesize=32768 pv.15
> #logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1024
> #logvol /home --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup01 --size=29920
> #logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=7008
>
> only to find out from the user that they needed more root space, but
> didn't realize it at the time. They now want to grow their root by
> 2GB.
>
> Is there a relatively painless/foolproof way to do this, say
> rebooting in rescue mode, and resizing?
>
> The user doesn't want to machine dumped/restored, or reimaged
> (because it's now been customized).
I don't think you even need to boot into rescue mode to do this
(though it shouldn't hurt). Paul Howarth detailed the steps for
another poster just yesterday in a thread titled "Resizing logical
volumes" (msg-id: 1147851477.1390.7.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx).
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