I can't make bigger the fedora partition

[pepito1]

Hello! I have fedora 11 and window installed. I reduced the windows partition in order to enlarge the fedora. The fedora partition is widespread, and puts gparted lvm2. I can not enlarge nor palimpset or with gparted, I can only delete or format it.

Can anyone help me?

Thank you!

leigh123linux: I' sorry, I thought that I can post threads in Spanish.

[Aloone]

The partition must not be mounted if you want to resize it.

The best way I've found is to boot using a live Linux CD.

For best results you should also defragment the Windows partition before resizing it. Unfortunately this can't be done from Linux. Boot to Windows, from the command line type defrag c: (assuming Windows is on drive c), it will take awhile for the command to complete. It's probably a bad idea to close the command box whilst it's running, be patient.

[SlowJet]

It is not a simple process to retro-fit partitions for dual booting.
Use SystemRescueCD-1-3.2 from distrowatch
# boot systemrescue dolvm

Windows disk

1. disk clean up.
2. Turn off and back on the the checkpoint process (turning it off removes many old files)
3. run ckfs on the windows disk (it will say it will do it the next reboot as it needs exclusive usage.)
Reboot and let it run.
4. Run disk defrag.
5. resize with a windows tool.

Linux. (On the new free diskspace.) All the commands have a man page.

1. fdisk /dev/sda
create the next partition on the frespace. A partition can not be in segments.
It will be out of order (sda1-windows, sda4- freespace,sda2 -/boot,sda3 -LVM PV

2. create a PV on the new partition.
lvm pvcreate /dev/sda4

3. Extend the Volume Group to the new PV.
lvm vgextend vg_name /dev/sda4

4. Extend the LV
lvm lvextend /dev/VG_name/LV_name /dev/sda4
(no --size means use all the space, same as "-l +100%PVS")

5. resize2fs /dev/VG_name/LV_name
no size means use all VG freespace.

SJ