Re: [SLUG] Partition Space

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Thu Aug 31 2006 - 09:46:46 EDT


On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Todd wrote:

> Unfortunally, in a hast to install Linux, I used an extended partition
> instead of LVM to do an install. After a couple of months my / partition is
> filling up. I have added extra space but is there a good way to convert the
> extended partition to LVM or increase the partition size of the / partition
> with out losing everything?

You can sorta-kinda do it by having your other partition mounted
automatically, say as /usr, whatever would be about the right size.

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