[SOLVED] lvm / resize partition problem

ghostshell · 02-13-2012, 09:14 PM

OS = RHEL 6 on vmware

parted /dev/sda print

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Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 316MB 315MB primary ext4 boot
2 316MB 19.4GB 19.0GB primary ext4
3 19.4GB 21.5GB 2114MB primary linux-swap(v1)

df -k

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Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 18306828 6247304 11129580 36% /
tmpfs 508464 276 508188 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 297485 54644 227481 20% /boot

i was not able to use the lvm gui as the command not found so
i try to use lvm non-gui to resize the /dev/sda1 to increase the size but fail to do

anyone have any idea for me to do so?

catkin · 02-13-2012, 09:50 PM

There is no evidence in what you posted of LVM being in use ... ?

Why do you want to increase the size of sda1 when it is only 20% used and already bigger than the usual /boot size of 1-200 MB?

ghostshell · 02-14-2012, 04:20 AM

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Originally Posted by catkin

There is no evidence in what you posted of LVM being in use ... ?

Why do you want to increase the size of sda1 when it is only 20% used and already bigger than the usual /boot size of 1-200 MB?

i try to create the database in folder /opt
but fail to do so as the size is not enouf
the database size is about 1G

catkin · 02-14-2012, 05:08 AM

Assuming there aren't any symbolic links to point /opt to the /boot file system, /opt is on the / file system which has around 11 GB free space. You might like to use df -h instead of df -k for an output which is easier to understand.

What are you doing to create the database? How do you know it is about 1 GB? What are the error messages?

ghostshell · 02-14-2012, 05:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by catkin

Assuming there aren't any symbolic links to point /opt to the /boot file system, /opt is on the / file system which has around 11 GB free space. You might like to use df -h instead of df -k for an output which is easier to understand.

What are you doing to create the database? How do you know it is about 1 GB? What are the error messages?

i was wrongly assume that my /opt is on /dev/sda1, in face is on /dev/sda2... while i try to create the sybase database
end up i find out that the insufficient space is due to my silly mistake... the pages size i define for the database is too big and over the partition size.

btw, thanks for the reply... have a nice day