Re:Re: is there any way to expand the fs size

["George Samuel" <george_samuel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"VIJAYA BHASKAR GANAPATHY" <gvbhas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


>Subject: Re: is there any way to expand the fs size

>using linux conf or fdisk find he device file in which >u'r mount poin is 
>located. then by using fdisk & its options to increase >the size of that 
>particular device file
>

     Creating a partition is one thing and creating the filesystem is another thing !.



>before doing it on the actual partition create a new file system using fdisk 
>& try increasing it's size using fdisk after confirming that this works 
>proceed.
     
       This is a sane advice. I hope none of the luggies tried this. For sure , it doesn't work.

To Vijay : 
{     Before giving any advice try it out on your system ! 
}     

      If you have reiserfs , you can dynamically increase the filesystem size.But you can't decrease it !.(That support is to be added in future )
      On ext2, if you want to increase a partition size,
you have to copy all the files to a spare partition (tar and gzip if you have a fast processor , I/O reduced(compression)  so faster ) , increase the partition size with fdisk and then create a new filesystem on this partition with mkfs.ext2 and then copy the files back.
      Another alternative would be to use LVM (Logical Volume Manager.(You'll have to patch the kernel with LVM patch )
       

-George Samuel
 

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