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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat How to RESIZE / root partition in RHEL5 (VM)? Post 302463934 by mark54g on Monday 18th of October 2010 10:13:26 PM
Old 10-18-2010
You have some other options:

What is your file system layout like?

Is the VM mapped to a physical block device or a file acting as one?

One thing to consider is that you can boot a recovery disk or something like a rescue CD image after presenting another disk or disk image and move /var /usr and /tmp to there. Those file systems tend to do well on their own partitions.

The way to go about this would be to present additional disk devices and then, from the system, modify the /etc/fstab file to point to the new devices. But, before you allow them to be mounted, I would suggest you rsync each directory to its new location. Once you have mounted the new location over the directory, the contents of those original directories will be inaccessible.

Last edited by mark54g; 10-18-2010 at 11:15 PM.. Reason: adding clarity
 

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RESIZE(1)						      General Commands Manual							 RESIZE(1)

NAME
resize - set TERMCAP and terminal settings to current xterm window size SYNOPSIS
resize [ -u | -c ] [ -s [ row col ] ] DESCRIPTION
Resize prints a shell command for setting the TERM and TERMCAP environment variables to indicate the current size of xterm window from which the command is run. For this output to take effect, resize must either be evaluated as part of the command line (usually done with a shell alias or function) or else redirected to a file which can then be read in. From the C shell (usually known as /bin/csh), the follow- ing alias could be defined in the user's .cshrc: % alias rs 'set noglob; eval `resize`' After resizing the window, the user would type: % rs Users of versions of the Bourne shell (usually known as /bin/sh) that don't have command functions will need to send the output to a tempo- rary file and then read it back in with the "." command: $ resize > /tmp/out $ . /tmp/out OPTIONS
The following options may be used with resize: -u This option indicates that Bourne shell commands should be generated even if the user's current shell isn't /bin/sh. -c This option indicates that C shell commands should be generated even if the user's current shell isn't /bin/csh. -s [rows columns] This option indicates that Sun console escape sequences will be used instead of the VT100-style xterm escape codes. If rows and columns are given, resize will ask the xterm to resize itself. However, the window manager may choose to disallow the change. Note that the Sun console escape sequences are recognized by XFree86 xterm and by dtterm. The resize program may be installed as sunsize, which causes makes it assume the -s option. The rows and columns arguments must appear last; though they are normally associated with the -s option, they are parsed sepa- rately. FILES
/etc/termcap for the base termcap entry to modify. ~/.cshrc user's alias for the command. SEE ALSO
csh(1), tset(1), xterm(1) AUTHORS
Mark Vandevoorde (MIT-Athena), Edward Moy (Berkeley) Copyright (c) 1984, 1985 by X Consortium See X() for a complete copyright notice. X Window System RESIZE(1)
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