Resizing a partition

[christian.peper at kpn.com]

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> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:20:25 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Scott R. Ehrlich" <scott at MIT.EDU>
> Subject: Resizing a partition?
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> I am running an out-of-box installation of 64-bit RHEL5 on a PE2950.
> 
> The OS is on two mirrored disks.   The home directories are on the 
> remaining four.   No space remains for additional partitions.
> 
> Is there any way, through Dell utils or the OS itself, to 
> resize the home 
> partition to allow for the creation of one more, or am I 
> stuck with what I have now or rebuild from the ground up?

If you accepted the defaults, my guess is that you have a logical volume
called something like /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00. If so, you are in
luck. If not, and someone correct me if I'm wrong, then you have to move
valuable files over and recreate your disk partitions and use LVM this
time. :)

For help playing with LVM partitions and resizing live (!) volumes,
please checkout the information I collected on
http://breakablelinux.blogspot.com/search?q=lvm

Let me know if you need additional pointers.
Good luck!
Chris.