Please forgive me if this is a question that falls into the "newbie" category. I feel like I am missing something obvious. I have a default RHEL5 install on a 250GB disk that I cut in half. The top half was to be the OS and various applications and the bottom half was to be a home for local file storage. I can't figure out how to create a partition in the free space and mount it.

I have poked around this site and Google and I have learned the following:
- parted will not work because there are LVM's on the host.

- gparted will not make or make install as advertised. I maybe getting that wrong as well... this is what I see:
[root@xpc gparted-0.3.3]# make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
[root@xpc gparted-0.3.3]# make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
[root@xpc gparted-0.3.3]# less INSTALL
[root@xpc gparted-0.3.3]# make checj
make: *** No rule to make target `checj'. Stop.
[root@xpc gparted-0.3.3]# make check
make: *** No rule to make target `check'. Stop.

- The RH LVM GUI does not 'see' the blank disk space.

- pvdisplay shows me the Free PE but I can't do much from there that I can tell...
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sda2
VG Name VolGroup00
PV Size 232.78 GB / not usable 2.71 MB
Allocatable yes
PE Size (KByte) 32768
Total PE 7449
Free PE 3664
Allocated PE 3785
PV UUID iLahdI-8nvE-0Vm9-fTxN-8Fof-Dqdd-f154GC


Is there a cookbook that can help me with this task? I have read all kinds of stuff on partitioning, schemes, strategies and what not. I would really like a "here is a primer on RHEL disk management" that addresses common issues like adding disks or creating partitions. Can you all point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance.

Herb

try using fdisk /dev/device but be warned dangerous to your data. use it judiciuosly.

Go have a look at tldp.org for the LVM how-to.

That's because gparted shouldn't have to make && make install. You should be doing:
If you want to compile from source, get the src.rpm and rpmbuild --rebuild it or install Gentoo.

The above won't help you though, AFAIK gparted doesn't support LVM. If you're in a GUI, you can do:
Then System > Administration > Logical Volume Management

If you're not in a GUI:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/e...r/LVM_CLI.html