Resizing Partion

[sabirkk]

Hi Guys ,

I have quick question on resizing partion . i have made three partitions s follows

TOTAL current disk space 40GB

/boot /dev/sda1 2GB (primary)
/ /dev/sda2 18GB (primary)
/swap /dev/sda3 4GB (primary)

/date /dev/sda5 16GB (extended )

Now i need to have more space in /data , server running in Virtual environment and i have expaded the disk to 60 GB (addedd +20GB).

quistion is

since i have utilised complete partitions ( 3 primary and 1 extended ) , what is possibility of resizing my extended partition.

Please advice .......



With regards

Mohamed

[tdsan]

TOTAL current disk space 40GB

/boot /dev/sda1 2GB (primary)
/ /dev/sda2 18GB (primary)
/swap /dev/sda3 4GB (primary)

/date /dev/sda5 16GB (extended )

Well, what type of virtual environment are we referring to (Vmware 4.1, Redhat Xen/KVM, Windows Hyper-V, etc).

Please advise.

Once you let me know what type of environment you have, then we can go from there.

T

I have included an article for your review - Extending a logical volume

I would test it using a USB volumes or disk first just to make sure you want it to perform in a particular way.

[sabirkk]

Hi ,

We are using VMware Environment and /data partion we are set as LVM and we expanded the disk (/dev/sda) in VMware .The issue is that since i already made extended partition .How can i expanded it .

appeciate you answer


With regards

mohamed

[alf55]

Since you are using LVM, you should read this section of the LVM HowTo on extending a logical volume at Extending a logical volume

[devils casper]

Could you post complete output of fdisk -l command here? Post the output of df -h command too.

[sabirkk]

Hi thanks ,

The problem is i can extend the LVM , but the issue is i need to create a device for that , as i mention i have utilised all partions (3 primary and 1 extended ). the only way is to extend the extended partion .Could you please suggest me some tool to extend the partions .


With regards

Mohamed

[alf55]

I made the assumption that you had a "logical volume" that was "/data". In that case another disk can be added to the LVM and then "/data" can be increased (and if using a smaller set of filesystems decreased) in size from the "lvm" space. Creating new "logical volumes" in LVM does not need a partition table entry. Can you post the output of the following commands:

fdisk -l 
pvscan
vgscan
lvscan
pvdisplay
vgdisplay
lvdisplay
mount