Resize Partition??

[Charles Mauch]

This one time, in band camp, Hugh Crissman said:

>> I am too dumb to understand LVM, so I'll provide the old school answer
>> (which was already provided, I'm just seconding it). Back up your
>> system, repartition things the way you like, then restore your system.
>> There's no other safe way to do this.
>
>I am with you on that one. I spent a while reading LVM docs last night
>and it seems pretty tough to me. I think LVM would help me out but it
>seems to be quite the complex subject. Let me know if anyone can find
>clear yet simple explanation on the subject.

The Howto is where I would start.

,----[ http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/benefitsoflvmsmall.html ]
| One of the difficult decisions facing a new user installing
| Linux for the first time is how to partition the disk drive. The
| need to estimate just how much space is likely to be needed for
| system files and user files makes the installation more complex
| than is necessary and some users simply opt to put all their
| data into one large partition in an attempt to avoid the issue.
|
| Once the user has guessed how much space is needed for /home
| /usr / (or has let the installation program do it) then is quite
| common for one of these partitions to fill up even if there is
| plenty of disk space in one of the other partitions.
|
| With logical volume management, the whole disk would be
| allocated to a single volume group and logical volumes created
| to hold the / /usr and /home file systems. If, for example the
| /home logical volume later filled up but there was still space
| available on /usr then it would be possible to shrink /usr by a
| few megabytes and reallocate that space to /home. 
`----

It's not that tough if you follow the concepts.  Your no longer
dealing with only partitions and filesystems, but you have a
couple of other concepts introduced which complicate things a
bit.

It really is worth the time spent getting it running though.
You may spend quite a bit of time upfront figuring it out, but a
year or two down the road when you need more hard disk space,
and can simply slap another hard disk in and extend your
multimedia "partition" to encompass both drives - you'll love it
;)

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Charles Mauch, FSF Apologist, Debian/Ubuntu/Gentoo user, etc.
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