Growing LVM root partition under Dapper?

Chanchao custom at freenet.de
Thu Apr 27 06:25:33 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 22:46 -0700, Charlie Zender wrote:

> My computer runs the latest Ubuntu Dapper beta on its 100 GB hard drive.
> The problem is that only about 18 GB appear to be available to use.
> There is nothing else on the disk except a small 250 MB /boot partition.
> I would like to devote the whole disk to Ubuntu.
> How do I grow the partition?

apt-get install gparted

A very nice graphical tool to create, edit, format and resize
partitions.  It's included in the Dapper Live CD, but for some reason it
does not get installed by default when you then install Dapper to your
computer using that Live CD.  Anyway it's easily added.

Cheers,
Chanchao





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