Extend Linux Partition

[Cyber Source]

ah, ok. Anywho, it will be pretty easy to do. First you have to change 
the existing partition to that of LVM (8e). Then you can extend your 
existing volume group to add the new physical volume. Type /sbin/lvm at 
the command prompt as root, then type help to get a listing of all the 
commands, quit to quit. Be careful! I would also only do it from a 
rescue cd (current system unmounted).

Frank Kumro wrote:

>Peter,
>   Your combining two threads into one. I emailed the lug to give out
>gmail invites and you can locally mount (sorta like NFS) the 1gb on
>your linux system. In another email (this thread) I was asking how to
>extend my current linux partition to the rest of my drive because I
>finally removed my windblows partition. I posted a link in the other
>thread about how to mount the gmail space. Any ideas how to extend my
>linux partiton without dataloss to take up the extra GB's of space
>that my drive has free?
>
>
>On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 08:46:46 -0500, Cyber Source
><peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
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>>Let me see if I understand this thread completely. Gmail (not very
>>familiar but I do have an account) will allow you to mount there drive
>>space locally? Like some NFS share? And if thats correct, you want to
>>extend your Linux LVM partition to it? That would be pretty damn cool.
>>I'd like to play with that one, I could help with the LVM stuff, anyone
>>know more about this Gmail share?
>>
>>Frank Kumro wrote:
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>>>I have
>>>
>>>Boot:
>>>/dev/hda3 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
>>>
>>>Root: (I want to extend this)
>>>/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw)
>>>
>>>Swap:
>>>(not shown)
>>>
>>>and then the ntfs partition
>>>
>>>All shown below
>>>
>>>Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
>>>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
>>>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>>>
>>>  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>>>/dev/hda1   *           1        5099    40957686    7  HPFS/NTFS
>>>/dev/hda2            5100        8923    30716280    7  HPFS/NTFS
>>>/dev/hda3            8924        8936      104422+  83  Linux
>>>/dev/hda4            8937       19457    84509932+   5  Extended
>>>/dev/hda5            8937       19457    84509901   8e  Linux LVM
>>>
>>>On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 20:17:15 -0800 (PST), Dave Andruczyk
>>><djandruczyk at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
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>>>
>>>>--- Frank Kumro <fkumro at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
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>>>>>Well I finally need the extra room on my HD that winblows is sitting
>>>>>on (havent booted it in .. err 6 months) but I have one problem. I do
>>>>>not have partition magic and I dont know of any other way to resize my
>>>>>linux partition without data loss. Any ideas??
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>What FS is the current linux partition formatted as? (mount will tell you) And
>>>>to make things absolutely clear how many partitions are on the drive and how
>>>>are they laid out "fdisk -l /dev/hda" will show you assuming the drive in
>>>>question is hda.
>>>>
>>>>=====
>>>>Dave J. Andruczyk
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>
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