resizing partition

[George Toft]

Logical Volume Management works great.  I just added a 4GB drive
(/dev/hdb1) partitioned reiserfs to my 15GB (/dev/hda3) to form
an 18GB logical volume, which supports /opt /home and /share.
LVM takes care of putting the data in the right place.  In this
case, /opt and /share were spread out across /dev/hdb1 using
whatever algorithm LVM uses - I don't care.

After I added /dev/hdb1, I resized /share to be 11 GB from 5GB, 
and took 2GB away from /opt and 1 GB away from /home.  All on the
fly, all without a reboot (except to add the drive initially).

Just throwing out an alternative to monkeying with partitions. . .

George


Eric wrote:
> 
> I know this has been asked, but I'm not finding the answer in the archives;
> am missing correct search terms or sore eyes.
> 
> Using RH7.1.  /home is its own partition; would like to resize it? WOuld
> like even more to make it span two disks; can I do this?  I would be willing
> to lose data on it if I could add the currently unused disk space (8 gigs)
> on another internal drive.  It currently uses 7 gigs on one drive only.
> 
> Can I do this?
> 
> Tanks,
> 
> Eric
> 
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