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Re: apologies for my ignorance
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Albannach |
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Re: apologies for my ignorance |
Date: |
Tue, 1 Oct 2002 19:09:20 +0100 |
On Monday 30 September 2002 23:58, David Leuser II wrote\n%s:
David,
Some random thoughts on your problems.
I've not used parted much, but have used Linux
for several years as both user and admin, and
other *nixes as a user.
> Hi
> I am desperate to resize a partition on my new rh7.2 server, and know
> almost nothing about partitioning. (familiar with deleting/creating DOS
> partitions in FDISK, but that's the extent of it)...
>
> I would REALLY REALLY appreciate it if any wise linux gurus could take me
> under your wing...
>
> I want to grow /home (Minor #2) by 4.5 gb. I was thinking I would resize
> /usr (minor #5) to be smaller (change the end from 10260 to 5760) to get
> the space to do this. That's when i rebooted and got nasty errors i
> didn't understand,
What are these errors?
> resized it back, and breathed a sigh of relief at my
> good luck that fixed it...
Did you make /dev/sda5 too small? if this is /var or /tmp
you need a fair about of free space or you can get out-of-space
errors for the temporary files.
> But now I don't know what to do? Whilst trying
> to resize, partent was spitting scary warnings at me like 'failed to
> cleanly unmount' or something to that effect.
'Failed to cleanly unmount' ?
Parted needs the partitiions you are working to me unmounted.
Andrew - does Parted check for this ?
Use 'umount /dev/sda5' to unmount minor 5, or boot using the
parted root disk (This is needed to if you wish to work on /, unless you have
a spare partion which can be made / [Linux/BSD dual boot systems can be like
this).
It may be possible that minor numbers changed, if this happend, edit your
/etc/fstab to refelect the new minor numbers.
If you run parted within 'script', and post the entire session here, we can
give more help on whats going wrong.
Possible instructions - take these with 1 Mol NaCl - they are of the top of
my head. They will fail if there isn't enough free space on /dev/sda5
#First unmount the affected partions - 3 needs to be moved, 4 (an exteneded
partion, containing 5 to 9) needs resized
#as the free space from 5 needs to moved to the end of 2
umount /dev/sda2 /dev/sda3 /dev/sda5
parted /dev/sda
#Half the size of /dev/sda5
resize 5 1106 6106
#Move it to the end
move 5 6106 10260
#resize 4 (it contains 5 to 9)
resize 4 10260 17343
#move 3
move 3 1082 6082
#resize 2
resize 2 1106 6082
exit
#inspect fdisk -p and /etc/stab to make sure that
#the minor drives haven't changed numbers/
#remount 2, 3, 5
mount /dev/sda2 /dev/sda3 /dev/sda5
>
> Thanks for any help you can offer... Oh yeah, it's a hardware raid
> mirror, but since the raid is at the hardware level that should be
> invisible to parted right???
>
> *** Print Statement from parted ***
>
> Using /dev/sda
> Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/sda is
> 2212/255/63. Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M.
> (parted) print
> Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-17355.750 megabytes
> Disk label type: msdos
> Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
> 1 0.031 54.909 primary fat16
> 2 54.910 1082.504 primary ext3
> 3 1082.505 1106.037 primary ext3 boot
> 4 1106.038 17351.455 extended lba
> 5 1106.068 10260.263 logical ext3
> 6 10260.294 15743.386 logical ext3
> 7 15743.417 16770.981 logical linux-swap
> 8 16771.012 17280.856 logical ext3
> 9 17280.888 17343.610 logical ext3
> (parted)
> *** ***
>
>
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- Re: apologies for my ignorance,
Albannach <=
- Re: apologies for my ignorance, Phil Williams, 2002/10/01
- Re: apologies for my ignorance, David Leuser II, 2002/10/02
- Re: apologies for my ignorance, Phil Williams, 2002/10/02
- Re: apologies for my ignorance, Andrew Clausen, 2002/10/03
- disk geometry, David Leuser II, 2002/10/09
- Re: disk geometry, Andrew Clausen, 2002/10/09
- Re: disk geometry, David Leuser II, 2002/10/09