How to extend the / partiotion in RedHat 5.4

guy3145 · 03-26-2015, 09:13 AM

im running out of space on the / partition
how do i extend this partition? this machine is inside a vmware environment.
i tried follow this article:

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-...9#.VRPgAY6UdCc

but it seems that the command "fdisk" is not recognized

what should i do?

bigrigdriver · 03-26-2015, 10:23 AM

Quote:

it seems that the command "fdisk" is not recognized

Fdisk must be run as root in order to make changes to partitions.

Instructions from the Vmware Knowledge Base on how to change a partition size in Red Hat:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/sea...rnalId=1006371

John VV · 03-26-2015, 05:05 PM

you are aware that"RedHat 5.4" is ancient
and 7 versions and 4 YEARS!!!!!! out of date on the OLD legacy hardware operating system

the CURRENT old redhat is RHEL 5.11
with the CURRENT being RHEL 7.1