Re: Increasing an ext3 partition

2003-01-13 Thread Samuel Flory
Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Javier Gostling wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:31:12AM +1100, John BouAntoun wrote: [snip] So my question is, how do I expand my ext3 / partition to take up the newly freed up hard disk space? Parted is the tool. You could also make

Re: Increasing an ext3 partition

2003-01-13 Thread Keith Morse
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, John BouAntoun wrote: > Thanks for suggestions guys, much appreciated. > > I've heard a bit about LVM, but have no real idea how it works/what it does. > > Can anyone provide a bit of insight (before I go and read up the web site) about it, >and how it could help me. > > T

Re: Increasing an ext3 partition

2003-01-13 Thread Javier Gostling
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 04:53:25PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > or start using the LVM (logical volume manager). i'm surprised that > more people aren't suggesting that. is LVM just not popular, or what? I use it... Ok. I'm learning to use it. Anyway, If your system does not already use LVM

Re: Increasing an ext3 partition

2003-01-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Javier Gostling wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:31:12AM +1100, John BouAntoun wrote: > > [snip] > > So my question is, how do I expand my ext3 / partition to take up the newly freed >up hard disk space? > > Parted is the tool. You could also make a new partition in the

Re: Increasing an ext3 partition

2003-01-13 Thread Javier Gostling
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:31:12AM +1100, John BouAntoun wrote: [snip] > So my question is, how do I expand my ext3 / partition to take up the newly freed up >hard disk space? Parted is the tool. You could also make a new partition in the freed space, move some hierarchy to it and configure your