At 11:16 AM +0100 5/18/06, Paul Howarth wrote: >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). > >Where is this extras space going to come from? You can't easily get it >by reducing /home because for some reason you put that on a different >volume group. It does seem an odd setup. Probably the solution lies not so much in LVM2 as in mount, and moving some part of / to another partition, say /tmp or /usr or /usr/local. The space could come from reducing /home. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
