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Hello

I am working through the RHCE Linux Study Guide (Michael Jang) and part of the course is learning how to configure a network installation. The first procedure is to copy the files from the Installation DVD to a new directory I created as follows:

Code:

# mkdir /inst

The problem I'm having is a lack of disk space on the /dev/sda2 filesystem where /inst is located. Please look at the output below:

Code:

[root@twood1 ~]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2             3.8G  2.8G  820M  78% /
/dev/sda5              14G  164M   13G   2% /home
/dev/sda1              46M   16M   28M  38% /boot
tmpfs                 506M     0  506M   0% /dev/shm

As you can see, only 3.8G is allocated to /dev/sda2, and the size of the installation DVD is 3.89G so is there a way of allocating more space to the sda2 filesystem from,say, sda5 which has used only 2% of its capacity?

I am using a CentOS iso image version of RHEL5:

Code:

cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 5.5 (Final)

This is a virtual machine running on VMware player.

I suspect that re-configuring filesystems will be covered under the Logical Volume Manager section of the book, but if anyone can give a bit of advice first-hand, I would be grateful.

You don't have to put inst under /. You can put it under /home/ and adjust the settings accordingly.

Alternately, you can move the directory to /home/inst and then create a symbolic link to /inst if you don't want to or cannot, for some other reason, change your configuration