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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
_____________________________________________________________________
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
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).
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wombat53
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
[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
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