On 08/07/11 17:39, Rob Beard wrote:
On 08/07/11 12:48, Alexander Birchall wrote:
Hi All,
I find that a Ubuntu server (Release 11.04(natty) I inherited has
available 60 GB of unused space on the hard disk. I would like to expand
the existing 40 GB available to the server to incorporate this extra 60
GB, but I have so far been unable to do it.
Using the Disk Utility on the Adminstration menu, I have been able to
create a new partition and drive in the free 60 GB. However, I have to
mount this new partition manually, after the server has started. The new
partition then appears as an icon resembing a drive on my desktop.
I have also used the GPARTED Live CD, but got the same result as above.
Any advice would be most gratefully recieved.
Many thanks.
Alex
I would suggest looking at LVM, you can create LVM volumes on partitions
on the disc and then add extra discs to expand the space. I've just done
this to recover some data from a 1TB hard drive. I don't think it has
any redundancy though.
Anyway, I used this to get started with LVM...
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
Rob
Doh! Didn't read the e-mail properly, I'd also suggest the option about
using GParted, boot from the CD, start GParted and hopefully you should
be able to delete the 60GB partition and re-size the existing 40GB
partition.
I believe that GParted is also on the Ubuntu Live CD too, at least I'm
pretty certain it used to be, occasionally came in handy in the past.
Rob
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