On 05/27/2012 12:45:45 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: > Hi, all. > > I've Googled this question quite extensively & before I proceed I > thought I'd ask for an opinion. It's quite a common predicament so > apologies in advance if I'm creating noise. > > I have a machine running Fedora 16 X86_64 which is a recent addition > & > > now I need to use some of the unused space on the HD for another OS > (CentOS). When I originally installed Verne, I just accepted > Anaconda's > "replace existing Linux system" so I have this: > > # pvdisplay -v > Scanning for physical volume names > --- Physical volume --- > PV Name /dev/sda2 > VG Name vg_sandstar > PV Size 74.04 GiB / not usable 10.00 MiB > Allocatable yes (but full) > PE Size 32.00 MiB > Total PE 2369 > Free PE 0 > Allocated PE 2369 > PV UUID nRaEqV-MTHe-ArbR-OCwh-VKTw-vZjG-gX6phH > > so as I understand it, my two viable options are a non-destructive > resize or a clean install & use Anaconda to create a blank partition > for > use as the second OS (well, I do have a third: I have a brand new > 60GB > > USB HD that could be used but I don't really want to go down that > road). > > The disk is 80GB & I have a 3.91GB swap, a 23.38GB home & root is > 46.75. > Total disk space that is actually used is minimal, less than 10 GBs. > > Possibly the easiest route would be to do a clean install but I'd > really > like to try to see if I can successfully resize it as I've never > tried > > it before. I went around that tree a few months back, and as far as I could discover there is no was to resize a partition. The parted documentation seemed to imply that resizing was supported, but at the end, no luck. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
