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Old 06-02-2006, 01:17 PM   #1
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Repartition Hard Drive Mounts


Here is what I have for break down.

/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
3078848 2671720 248204 92% /
/dev/hda1 101086 9857 86010 11% /boot
tmpfs 322928 0 322928 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda2 14877092 745128 13364060 6% /var/www


I would like to move some of the disk space from the /dev/hda2 (/var/www) mount to the
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 (/) mount and then create a new mount for /home.

Is there a way I can do this after the machine has been configured?

Thanks
Troy
 
Old 06-02-2006, 02:29 PM   #2
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Can you backup /var/www to a external media, like a CD-R or something like that ?
This is because the best aproach here is to convert /dev/hda2 to a LV and add the new volume to the already setup /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00.
Doing so, you can extend your / partition in about 14G.

After that is easy to cretae /home and restore /var/www.

Post the answer back, so we can guide you to this process or figure out an another way.
 
Old 06-02-2006, 02:55 PM   #3
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Yes, I can create a backup.

Also why is the / partition showing up as /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 instead of say /dev/hda3? Is there a way to change that?

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Old 06-02-2006, 03:25 PM   #4
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good.

Read the post to the end, before you start to change your disk.
Print anything you could need.

The first thing is to stop apache/httpd, because it uses /var/www.
Make this change permanently, by using chkconfig to turn off httpd/apache.

After that you can umount /var/www. "umount /var/www"
Uncomment any references to hda2 in your /etc/fstab to avoid the system mount it again in the next reboot.


Now, using fdisk, change the /dev/hda2 partition type from Linux (83) to Linux LVM (8e).
Reboot the computer, so the kernel can see the new partition table.
Make sure apache is not running and /dev/hda2 is unmounted.

The Linux Documentation project has a good Howto for LVM: read it !
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/commontask.html

Create a physical volume on /dev/hda2: "pvcreate /dev/hda2".
Now, add the /dev/hda2 to the existing VolGroup00: "vgextend VolGroup00 /dev/hda2"

now, write down how big is the VolGroup00 in PE: "vgdisplay VolGroup00". Look for a string "Total PE". Note that "Free PE" is a non-zero number.

Allocate that space to the logical volume: "
lvextend -l<put the total PE here> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00"

Now you need to extend the filesystem on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00.
The proper command depends of the filesystem.
For ext2/ext3 systems: "resize2fs /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00"
For reiser: "resize_reiserfs /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00"
For that the file system must be offline. To do that you will beed a liveCD.

After that, create /var/www again, restore the backup and create /home.

good luck and post any questions before you start.
 
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How do you change the partition type from Linux (83) to Linux LVM (8e)?
 
  


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