Re: [gentoo-user] Resize /

[Dirk Heinrichs]

Am Donnerstag, 16. November 2006 22:56 schrieb ext jakommo:

> I think I try that, but I wait for a moment where it doesn't metter if
> something goes wrong.

There's always "telinit 1".

You mentioned it's a RAID 5, and I think Neil also asked wether you're using 
LVM. If not, you should consider using it (or EVMS, which I prefer), so 
that you don't run into these troubles again in the future.

You may hear different opinions about that, but you should also consider 
splitting your disks into several partitions (or better: logical volumes) 
anyway. You'd gain great flexibility, i.e. in that you can select different 
filesystems for different purposes, resize as you need, don't wait long 
time for fs checks/repairs, etc.

Here's my layout, as an example:

hda1: /boot, 64M, ext2 (64M is way too large).
hda2: LVM

Then, I have logical volumes for everything else, managed with EVMS:

# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/evms/root        256M  109M  148M  43% /
/dev/evms/usr         5.0G  3.9G  1.2G  77% /usr
/dev/evms/opt         2.0G  260M  1.8G  13% /opt
/dev/evms/var         2.0G  1.1G 1006M  51% /var
/dev/evms/build       3.3G   95M  3.2G   3% /gentoo/build
/dev/evms/distfiles   2.0G  1.7G  356M  83% /gentoo/distfiles
/dev/evms/portage     512M  241M  272M  48% /gentoo/portage

BTW: I never needed to resize /. Sometimes I need to grow /usr, but since I 
chose reiserfs for it, it can be done while mounted.

HTH...

	Dirk
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