2 Repartitioning Disk Questions
Please excuse the newby questions, but I have never re-partitioned a disk, and I have no test system on which to practice.
We have a RAID-10 system, the 80GB RAID is not fully partitioned, and the existing partitions are running out of space. I don't need blow by blow instructions, but need the answers to two questions, so I can get something squared away with a vendor, who thinks the whole process can be done remotely. Does any part of the re-partitioning process require being at a run level other than 5? I am not counting rebooting the system. As long as people are logged off, and I shut down main daemons, is that OK? Can parted use un-partitioned space, or should I be creating a partition out of what remains and let parted deal with that? Thank you for your help. |
1. You shouldn't have to worry about runlevels, just make sure the filesystems ain't mounted.
2. man parted? http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/docs.shtml? |
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Most file system types cannot be re-sized while they are mounted, including ext3; un-mounting most file systems is not do-able in run level 5. If you need to resize / you need to boot something other than the OS on / so it cannot be done in any of your usual OS' run levels. Quote:
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Umount should become part of my vocabulary
This sounds like no processes should be running that need the file system and a vendor could log in remotely. You would think unmounting file systems would become part of my vocabulary, but this is one area of things I don't touch often.
Thanks for the replies. |
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