>Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 15:32:58 +0200 >From: Götz Reinicke <goetz.reinicke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >may be I've been a little bit to fast setting up a new RHEL5 server :-) > >I've created a volumegroup on a hardwareraid about 1.8TB and there is >one logical volume mounted on / using ext3. > >Now I do need some more volumes because of getting better quota >management; e.g. a temporary share without quota on or special project >accounts. > >The simple question: How to proceed? I've been reading some RH Manuals >and home how tos, but I'm not realy shure if I got all things right. >(resize filesystem, change logic volume size, add a new logic volume, >put a filesystem on it, mount it somewhere, copy the stuff from the >"big" volume to the new, ...) > >Hase someone a simple how to what steps have to be done? May be it's >also a problem, that the volume is mounted as /. > >Thanks in advance for any hints and tips! > The best I can suggest is this: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ Also, if you have any other volumes available, I'd copy, say, /usr to one, and maybe /sbin, /bin, /lib and /etc to another. (Ask someone else what to do with /dev....) then reboot, mounting the other stuff in place of your current /. mark -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
