Re: Partition Resizing/Re-arranging
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On Thursday 24 October 2002 9:08 am, Michelle Storm wrote:
> I'd like to know if it's possible and if so, HOW, to rearrange my
> current partitions. Most of the data on /usr/local I am not worried about,
If you are going to do this a lot and want to be able to adjust sizes easily
take a look at LVM. I have set it up on all but my root partition (needs
initrd and I am using this with debian kernels so was not sure I could build
a combined version).
You will need to work through the logic of using parted (which I see from a
reply in this thread you already have installed) to create some space and
then creating logical volumes and copying filesystems on to them, changing
the mount points in fstab and remounting in the new arrangement. With the
space just released - add it to your logical volume - then start creating
more logical partitions - and so on.
There is a howto that is intalled in /usr/share/doc/lvm10 - although may just
want to locate it on the web.
I found it very easy to do - just a bit slow as I have a total of about 80GB
set up as a logical volume and I had to copy (used rsync) from the physical
to the logical (in small steps). It took me about an afternoon to make the
transition in the end.
- --
Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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