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Hi, I'm currently running RHEL 4 update 5 and want to upgrade to RHEL 5.2. When I try to do my upgrade, it tells me that my / partition needs ...
  1. 03-02-2009 #1
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    Hi,
    I'm currently running RHEL 4 update 5 and want to upgrade to RHEL 5.2. When I try to do my upgrade, it tells me that my / partition needs more space. Is there a way to expand the partition without losing my data or having to rebuild the machine? Alternatively, if I soft link the partition to another that has more space, could I 'fool' the install into thinking there's enough space?
    Any advice or additional recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

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    you can add the parition to a logical volume, create one if its not present. and then you can increase the size of the partition.
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    Check out the Parted Magic LiveCD for working with your partitions. It's a small/quick download and is very easy to use, and it makes quick work of resizing partitions.
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