I'm running Fedora Core 14 on my server and in copying over all the stuff I had backed up before the install, i recived the message that one of my volumes was nearly out of space. Since this is just a partition on my hard drive, I could resize it to make it larger, but I don't know how. It's a ext4 partition on my 2nd hard drive.

tried to install gparted? or boot from gparted live cd and then resize.

Hello,

Have a look at GParted. They have a LiveCD from which you can boot to perform partition changes. Be sure to make a backup of your data before 'playing' with your partitions. I'm assuming you're referring to 'normal' partitions, not LVM.

Kind regards,

Eric

Thanx to everyone who responded. I also got to thinking a google search might turn up something interesting, and I found a link to Parted Magic, which claims to handle many file systems. Here is the if anyone is interested:
http://partedmagic.com/doku.php

I downloaded the ISO and burned a copy to CD, but i'm waiting for my server to finish its current copy operation (very large directory being copied over) before I restart the machine to try this out. I'll try to repost with the results when I'm done.

it's probably just a demo, i ve ben scammed before.

Demo? Which one you mean? Parted Magic?

If you haven't try that package, don't post a comment that doesn't appreciate other people's hard work.

Actually, Parted Magic is a distro that has packages related to disk maintenance, INCLUDING gparted. So you can use that too.
I've used that distro and install it to a flash disk. Many times I did partition resizing, deletion, and so on.

Good luck...

You can possibly use lvm to overcome these type of problems. High time for you to know more about lvm.

OK, i downloaded the ISO for Parted Magic and tried it out. Don't know if it could have helped, because it refused to load when I booted from the live cd, claimed a file was missing. I download and both the latest version and the version before that, both did the same thing. So I don't know if the software is any good or not. If anyone else tries it and gets it to load/run, maybe you can let me know how you did it and and did it work ok?

Hi Moonlit,

Actually, I installed Parted Magic on the thumb drive. I just follow the guidance in its website. I intalled it since version 4 if I'm not wrong. And every time the new version arrived, I just update it.

Besides that, I also download the ISO file for my VirtualBox management, i.e. resizing the vdi, copying partition one from the other virtual disk, etc. It works as expected.

I think maybe the burning process that causing your CD can't be booted. Have you try it on another computer? What software did you use to burn that image to CD?

In addition, these are LiveCDs that can be used for partitioning disk:

• Gparted (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php)
• Parted Magic (http://partedmagic.com/)
• System Rescue CD (http://www.sysresccd.org/)