It worked, thank you Barry! Regards, Geoff. -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Barry Brimer Sent: Thursday, 25 December 2008 5:42 p.m. To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: Linux Partitioning Issue On Thu, 25 Dec 2008, Geofrey Rainey wrote: > I have a system with a raid 5 array which I have extended using HP > array Configuration utility tools. You can see from the output of > fdisk below That the disk has extra space: > > Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 366.8 GB, 366870733824 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 44602 cylinders Units = cylinders of > 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux > /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 14 2563 20482875 8e Linux > LVM > /dev/cciss/c0d0p3 2564 2690 1020127+ 82 Linux > swap / Solaris > /dev/cciss/c0d0p4 2691 26761 193350307+ 5 Extended > /dev/cciss/c0d0p5 2691 26761 193350276 8e Linux > LVM > > However because of the limited size of the extended partition I am > unable to use the extra space, I receive the following error: > > Command (m for help): n > No free sectors available > > Command (m for help): > > Presumably I have to remove partition 5 and also the extended > partition 4, then resize the extended partition to use the extra > space. However I'm concerned that I'll loose all the data on partition > 5, is there a way around this? I am wondering if I specify the start > and end cylinders of partition 5 to be the same size will the data be > preserved? In my experience if you have the starting position as before, all should be fine. Delete partition 5, delete partition 4, create the new partition 4, with the old start and the new end, create the new partition 5 with the same start cylinder for partition 5 with a new end cylinder and then run ext2online (RHEL/CentOS 4) or resize2fs (RHEL/CentOS 5) to extend the filesystem. As always, standard rules apply. Backups are good, more backups on different systems / disks are better. Hope this helps. Barry -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ========================================================== For more information on the Television New Zealand Group, visit us online at tvnz.co.nz ========================================================== CAUTION: This e-mail and any attachment(s) contain information that is intended to be read only by the named recipient(s). This information is not to be used or stored by any other person and/or organisation. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
