Re: Resizing partitions on production environment
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 10:42:14AM +0500, Daniel Suleyman wrote:
> Dear all, i have big issues.
> I've installed lenny on my server, installed all programs and ran it on
> production, ut now i need to install oracle on it.
> My artitions have sizes
> user:~# df -kh
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 327M 141M 170M 46% /
> tmpfs 5.9G 0 5.9G 0% /lib/init/rw
> udev 10M 104K 9.9M 2% /dev
> tmpfs 5.9G 0 5.9G 0% /dev/shm
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p9 80G 42G 35G 56% /home
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p8 373M 11M 343M 3% /tmp
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p5 4.6G 1.6G 2.9G 36% /usr
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p6 2.8G 1.2G 1.5G 45% /var
>
> and oracle wont install becouse my root partition have less size that oracle
> need. how I an resize my partitions on fly? or at least from livecd but with
> guaranteed no data losses.
> Thank you in advance,
> Daniel
I've done this in the past when in a bind:
If oracle wants to install to /opt/oracle, "mkdir /home/oracle" and then "ln -s /home/oracle /opt/oracle"
This will put the oracle stuff in the /home partition.
-Rob
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