I have filled up the /usr partition on SuSe 10.2. /usr is a logical partition in the logical volume group (system). The logical volume group is configured with the default settings. I currently have 32 GB of unallocated space on the system volume group. I would like to add some of this to /usr to clear up my problem. My logical partitions are formatted with the ext3 file system.

I tried booting from the installation CD and using the partitioner to extend /usr. However, it told me that there was not enough space on the disk to extend this partition. I believe that I missed a step or 2 in between. What is the proper procedure to add space to /usr, keeping in mind that I am using logical volumes/partitions and the ext3 file system???

My usual procedures are:

lvextend -L +5G /dev/vg1/lvusr
resize_resierfs /dev/vg1/lvusr

Replace vg1 with your volume group name a lvusr with the logical volume for your usr partition.
Of course -L +5G will increase it by 5 gigs, you can omit the + to specify the exact size and replace the G with M for megabytes.

Since you use ext3, I think the resizer is 'resize2fs'. From the looks of the man page, online resizeing is permitted with ext3, so you don't have to unmount your filesystem.

Good guide at tldp.org as well.

Thanks, It worked like a champ