I have recently used Acronis (Backup software for data backup and disaster recovery in Windows and Linux - Acronis) to create identical systems that I need to build.
Everything works OK, but one of the machine has a bigger harddisk (250G) than the one I used to create the backup image (I think it was 180G).
When I applied the backup image to that harddisk, everything works fine, but `df -a` only shows 180G.
When I run `fdisk -l` it does say the size is 250G.
The machines run on CentOS 5.2 and here are some info:
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14 24321 195254010 8e Linux LVM
LVM:
I would like to make use of that extra space. I know I need to extend the partition, but not sure on what steps to take. As it is a potentially dangerous operation I would like to get some advice on how to do it properly.
I hope I can get some help regarding this matter.
Thank you for your help and sorry for the long post.
Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 04-27-2009 at 07:49 AM..
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You could extend the partition, but I think it would be easier to create a third partition on the device, add it as a LVM physical volume and extend the volume group. If you want to include that space into the existing mount point, you'll have to know whether or not your filesystem supports resizing (online/offline).
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