[ILUG] Resizing partitions

[Stephen Horgan]

> On Tue, 31 May 2005, Stephen Horgan wrote:
>
>> OK rephrased: I want to grow the partition _down_ into the free
>> 25GB, then resize the filesystem.
>
> Trickier.
>
>>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>> /dev/hdc1               1        1657    13309821   fd  Linux raid
>> autodetect
>> /dev/hdc2            4865       30515   206041657+  83  Linux
>
> Ah.
>
>> That's the easy way out ;-)
>
> What I'd do is use LVM... it depends on whether you have less than
> 25GB of data on hdc2.

Afraid not:

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
<snip>
/dev/hdc2             194G   41G  143G  23% /data


>
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> Paul Jakma	paul at clubi.ie	paul at jakma.org	Key ID: 64A2FF6A
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