Is it possible to extend a extended partition raw space in harddisk thru rhel 6
hi all,
As going thru LVM concepts in rhel 6, got hit with a question about "how to use the raw partition of an harddisk which extended volume is taken a bit"
please find the attached diagram...
is it possible to use this raw space with previously created extended partition without data loss or do we have to delete the previously created extended partition and create again with raw space ?
Hi
I have solaris 8 installed on Intel machine. the disk I have is IDE.
I would like to know how can I create a raw partition on an IDE disk.
Regards,
Raja (2 Replies)
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Hello,
Im new here, and may be my question is stupid, but...
Today I run PGP Desktop decript on my 2nd partition ( D:\ ) and when decript finish, I restart my PC.Now when I try to open D:\ its give me: D:\ is not accessable and I lose my files :(
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Hi,
My linux server working with LVM partition and with /boot partition, now my /boot partition is full, now i need to extend my boot partition. can i know how to do it, without any data loss.
Regards,
M.Selva Prakash (4 Replies)
Hello Folks,
Greetings,
I am in need of extending the / partition for one of my SuSE linux Enterprise Server 11.1 which is running on VMware. I will be able to extend the virtual lun from the vshphere console but not sure how to extend the root partition from the OS end. I am not sure if I... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I had created a primary partition (/dev/sda3) and made ext3 file system on it.
then mounted it on a directory and touch a file (x) into this partition.
however, I want to remove this partition and recreate it as an empty partition. so I used 'd' in fdisk command and delete that partition.... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I need to extend a soft partition from 20G to 100G. New disk is already added as a meta device. This soft partition is already assigned to a guest LDOM. Can someone let me know the steps to increase soft partition so guest LDOM can recognize the new space.
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addpart
ADDPART(8) System Administration ADDPART(8)NAME
addpart - tell the kernel about the existence of a partition
SYNOPSIS
addpart device partition start length
DESCRIPTION
addpart tells the Linux kernel about the existence of the specified partition. The command is a simple wrapper around the "add partition"
ioctl.
This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a block device.
PARAMETERS
device The disk device.
partition
The partition number.
start The beginning of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
length The length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
SEE ALSO delpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8), partx(8)AVAILABILITY
The addpart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
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