I need to extend my partition... I think.

[quantumburnz]

I did a new FC9 installation yesterday on a 10GB partition. Unfortunately, FC9 was a bit bigger than I expected and I'm already out of free space. I used Partition Magic to remove 5GB from my Win XP installation, and now i want to combine the 5GB of free space with my existing FC9 partition.

I'm sure there's a tutorial on this somewhere but for the life of me, I can't find it. I tried the GParted Live CD but it tells me my FC9 partition is LVM so it can't work with it. What should I do to combine these? Thanks!

[smart_axiom]

hi there,

I don't use linux's logical volume system, and I really haven't tried this myself.

Anyways ... But my thinking is that since since you have a logical volume already available, what you need to do is add a physical volume to it.

see this link http://www.redhat.com/magazine/009jul05/features/lvm2/

especially this part:

pvcreate /dev/hdc
vgextend volume_group_one /dev/hdc

Hope this info helps

[SlowJet]

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/


You have taken the default install and the used LVM (See the install section on PArtitioning and disk druid.)
You must have installed a lot of extras otherwise there would be plenty of free space.

The fastest way would be to re-install and you may need even more space, 20 GB total.
About 15-16 for / and 2GB for swap, 320MB for /boot

This is how you extent the LV in a VG to another PV. see man lvm

man fdisk
create a partition out of the free space (sdan) with type 8e
man pvcreate
# /dev/sdan (the 5 GB)
Man vgextend
# vgextend VolGroup00 /dev/sdan (the 5GB)
man lvextend
lvextend /dev/VolGrouup00/LogVol00 /dev/sdan (the 5GB)

SJ

[quantumburnz]

Thanks for the link smart_axiom. I read the article and it was very helpful/informative. From this, I was able to create a new PV, add it to the VG and resize the LV. So, my LV is larger now. However, when I do df, it doesn't show the file system is any larger, which makes sense I suppose.

Slow Jet -- Thank you for the links and your help as well. I did indeed do the default install. I have no clue what all Fedora installed but I really need to get rid of some of it. My problem is that I ran out of space (df shows 0% free) so I can't boot into the GUI now, I can only boot up to the command prompt. Hence, why I'm trying to add free space. Anyway, you're probably right about reinstalling being the easiest way. Although, now that I've resized the logical volume, how can I make the file system see the extra space? I've seen resize2fs but I'm unable to see my logical volumes when I boot to a live CD...

[quantumburnz]

On second thought, don't waste the breath trying to answer my last question. I think I found an article that shows how to resize by deleting the partition and recreating it. It all just sounds like way too much work. I'm going with your original suggestions of reinstalling, and this time I'm going to skip LVM I think... Thanks for the help.