Adding more mount points to Fedora14 on VirtualBox

[tvraghavan]

Hi,

Am running virtual box on Windows7. I've installed Fedora14 on 1 8GB fixed HDD mode. Now I would like to add another 2GB to my existing installation.
[virtualbox setup attached]

I've added the new .vdi file to my virtualbox setup.
How do I make this space available in my Fedora ?
a) Am ok to add this as a new volume
OR
b) Add this space to the existing volume

Current structure
/boot: 500MB
/ : 8GB


Thanks
-Raghav

[smr54]

Running fdisk -l on the Fedora guest should show some unpartitioned space, probably /dev/sdb. Then you can partition it with fdisk, cfdisk, or if you're more comfortable with a graphic tool, gparted. (gparted won't handle logical volumes though, so may show your already existing install as unpartitioned space.)

If you want to expand the current root partition, (assuming you took defaults and it's an lvm) then the steps would be use fdisk to create an lvm partition, make a physical volume on it, make a volume group on the physical volume, expand the existing volume and then resizing the file system. I have a page on LVMs, which might help--though it's only a so-so page at present.

http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/lvm.html

[tvraghavan]

Thanks smr54. I followed your instruction and was able to successfully setup the additional space.

[smr54]

Glad to hear it. You can mark the thread solved, if you want, by clicking the thread tools link at the beginning of the thread.