Resize Linux partitions
 

I am sure this q. has been asked hundreds of times, but I need to resize my /home partition of Fedora 8. The disk was set up with Anaconda/DRUID, I manually assigned several partition sizes, and I used LVM, which seems to make a small VG in swp, and the remainder of the disk in another VG in /root (48GB). A book I have (Sobell, 3rd Ed). says VG's are to simplify space management, and also suggests, adding new LV's to the VG and identifying a mount point, fstype and size for that LV. However, I'm not sure if this can be done after install.
Here's a couple of listings.
Many thanks
George
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
49199340 3023044 43636776 7% /
/dev/sdb7 497829 454100 18027 97% /home
/dev/sdb6 1984016 104152 1777452 6% /tmp
/dev/sdb5 1984016 372816 1508788 20% /var
/dev/sdb2 9920624 4980376 4428180 53% /usr
/dev/sdb3 9920624 153884 9254672 2% /usr/local
/dev/sdb1 194442 34664 149739 19% /boot
tmpfs 777264 24 777240 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda2 38909428 22129104 16780324 57% /mnt/win_c
/dev/sda5 205270504 35509812 169760692 18% /mnt/win_d
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and:
[root@localhost ~]# vgdisplay
--- Volume group ---
VG Name VolGroup00
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 1
Metadata Sequence No 3
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 2
Open LV 2
Max PV 0
Cur PV 1
Act PV 1
VG Size 50.41 GB
PE Size 32.00 MB
Total PE 1613
Alloc PE / Size 1612 / 50.38 GB
Free PE / Size 1 / 32.00 MB
VG UUID 2XmoSY-3Pl4-115F-dNpi-HOPB-jb4i-6LSfZw

Oh my god! Why yo do that?
what a mess......

fix everything with cfdisk

It will be a better idea to do the fixing with parted.

Best

A. Mani

In future use [code] tags when posting output.
We need the actual layout on the disks - let's see the output from "fdisk -l" (may need root under Fedora).

Hi,

It is easier to place large pieces of data within 'Quote' or 'Code' vbcode tags. The tags are at the top of the reply window.

Not that hard and makes things easier to read.