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3 Replies Last post: Oct 25, 2009 10:22 AM by AndreTheGiant  

How do I format an extended linux partition? posted: Oct 23, 2009 5:35 AM

Click to view drdemonx's profile Novice 13 posts since
Feb 25, 2006

I extended the partitions on two of my virtuals - both running Centos 4.

How do I configure the OS to use the new partitioned disk space?

Thanks!


Re: How do I format an extended linux partition?

1. Oct 23, 2009 5:49 AM in response to: drdemonx
Click to view NTurnbull's profile Expert 432 posts since
Feb 11, 2008
Hi, just googled it and came up with http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s1-system-config-lvm.html - useful?

Thanks,
Neil

Re: How do I format an extended linux partition?

3. Oct 25, 2009 10:22 AM in response to: drdemonx
Click to view AndreTheGiant's profile Guru 5,984 posts since
Aug 28, 2008
First you have to create a partition with fdsk /dev/sdX (where X is the letter of your each drive).
Then if you have LVM follow the LVM howto (http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/).
If not you have to make a new filesystem and mount in a new mount point.

Or you can simply use Gparted from a live Linux distro.

See also
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/suse-linux-help/83611-how-extend-existing-ext3-paritiion.html
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/how-do-i-extend-an-ext3-partition-408599/

Andre

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