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Decrease one VolumeGroup, increase another
Is it possible to decrease the vg_home and increase vg_root? I am running RHEL. I need to know the steps.
[root@web /]# uname -a
Linux web 2.6.32-131.4.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jun 10 10:54:26 EDT ...
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Expand root partition without LVM
I've got free unpartitioned space which I'd like to use to expand my root partition.
The server runs under Debian Squeeze and I'm administrating it with no GUI.
How can I do that?
Do I need the free ...
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resize a xen hvm disk
Ok,
I am trying to resize a Xen HVM disk. I have added the space to the vm as you can see here it is now 780GB.
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/VM_VolGroup/vm104_img
VG Name ...
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Unmounting the root filesystem (/) for resizing without a rescue cd?
I am just trying to figure out if this is possible to do. I am trying to resize a number of filesystems, and to be safe (these are production boxes as well as QA) I wanted to do the resize offline. I ...
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How can I slow down I/O operation in a disk when the LVM is being re-sized?
I want to re-size a LVM volume online in my Linux box.
It is taking very long time to complete, since there are I/O operations being performed on that volume.
Is there any way I can tell every other ...
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Root file system not grown after replacing with a larger EBS on AWS
I had a 8GB EBS attached to my EC2 Instance
but I was running out of space
what I did on the AWS Management Console:
Create a snapshot of the current EBS (8GB)
Create a new EBS based on the ...
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Resize Windows 7 Guest virtualised under KVM on Centos 6
I created a windows 7 virtual machine on Centos 6 running the following:
virt-install --name=W7VIRT64 --ram=768 --disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/guest1-win7-32,size=8 --vnc --network ...
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How do you reallocate hard drive space between directories in Unix FreeBSD?
I was wondering what it takes to reallocate hard drive space between root directories in Unix FreeBSD? For example, take away space from the /usr directory and add to the /dev. This question was ...
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Resizing logical volume on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.6
I'm running Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.6 as a virtual machine inside Virtualbox 4.0.12 on my mac. Initially I had allocated 8G of hard disk space and now I increased the virtual hard disk size to 30G.
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Extend volume group with adjacent unallocated space
I want to grow my volume group to use the unallocated space next to it.
Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
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Resizing this particular partition, Mac OS [closed]
I am currently running on Apple Mac OSX Lion 10.7 (11A480b) and I am trying to resize my partitions on the disk for one of our servers. I already downsized a previous installation of Mac OSX Lion ...
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Resizing swap partition (RHEL 5.x)
Following is how parted print looks like:
(parted) print
Model: VMware Virtual disk (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 26.8GB
Sector size ...
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Cloning & resizing Server 2003 partitions with gparted, some questions
Ok, so the situation I have is this. I've got a couple of Dell PowerEdge 2950's that are running out of drive space on the boot volume, they have a perc 5/i hardware Raid Controller. I've bought 4 ...
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Resize a rebuild CPQ hardware RAID
I have a HP/Compaq DL360 with two 73gig HDs and a Smart Array 6i in a mirror, and CentOS 5.5.I'm low on space, so I alternately swapped in two 300 gig units and let the RAID card rebuild them. Now I ...
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How do you deal with AWS 32 and 64 bit server size limitations?
I'm trying to figure out the best way to start small instance - 1.7GB RAM, 1 ECU on AWS and be able to resize it up to 7.5GB Large and beyond - and likewise to come down from a 7.5gb large to a Small ...
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reshaping raid and growing raid
This is a two part question.
1) Can you reshape raid 5 to 6 with mdadm on linux (fairly sure you can, but cant get mdadm to accept it)
2) Can you do 1) while also growing the array in one go ?
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Online EXT4 on LVM resize
Have such partitions/volumes/mountpoints:
=$ LC_ALL=C df -hP | column -t
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg0-rootlv 19G 854M 17G 5% /
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From Raid-1 to Raid-5
I want to upgrade from Raid-1 to Raid-5 but don't want loss of data. It seems that the way to do it is some 3rd party programs. Can you recommend me some applications or another way to do that?
HP ...
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Mdadm resize not mounting at correct new size
Before, I had four 1TB drives on a RAID array. I added two more 1TB drives to the array, let it do its rebuild and it is not showing the size increase when I mount it.
jacks@Gen2:~$ df -h ...
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How can I extend the partition size without booting to the partition
I'm looking for a way to extend a partition size from about 120g to 500g. The partition is currently in sysprep mode - I'm not wanting to boot to the partition as it needs to stay in sysprep mode. ...
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Resizing Compressed Volume in Windows Server 2008
I recently ran into an interesting situation with a client. They were reporting that the application we support was having performance issues, namely it was running very slowly.
Upon investigation we ...
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Resize LVM after cloning disk
I have cloned a 160Gb disk onto a 1TB disk.
See here for the exact details.
Clone ubuntu linux hard disk
I want the use the entire disk.
How do i get the volume to use the whole disk.
There where ...
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Can't resize Folder properties window
I've opened the properties window of a folder to view it's security groups, but the security group names are too long to be fully readable in the security tab.
There is no way to resize the window.
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Real-time Image Resize, Cropping and Caching Server Product
I'm investigating what products are out there that will allow you to request images through a HTTP API in arbitrary image sizes. The server would behind a CDN but would still need to be able to handle ...
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resize partition hfs ntfs
Is there any tool available to grow a primary NTFS partition at the expense of an adjacent HFS partition ? (like in the image: http://i.stack.imgur.com/9kRXf.png
Thank you
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How long should resize2fs take on a 1TB partition?
I've got a new computer at the university and almost set up everything for myself on it when I've noticed that the previous user of the machine used a huge 1TB ext3 partition only. I usually keep ...
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Howto align partitions in Linux + NetApp
NetApp support has suggested us aligning partitions to improve performance, in short: starting sector must be divisible by 8. How can I move the start point in a misaligned partition -in production, ...
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Is it possible to enable online resizing after the fs was created?
I have an Ext3 filesystem sitting on an LVM volume group. The partition was formatted before online resizing was enabled by default.
Is it possible to turn this feature on after the fact, like ...
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Resizing ext2/3 partitions (including /usr) on a live system
I'm building a system with fairly limited disk space that will use LVM, and I'd like to be able to resize the partitions as freely as possible without bringing the system down. In particular, I'd ...
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How can the “actual” size of VHD/VMDK files be reduced after deleting unwanted files?
Somewhat akin to this question I asked on superuser, and this one for Hyper-V, after deleting files from a VM, how can the virtual disks be resized back downwards?
For example, perhaps the VM has ...
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Resize Ubuntu Linux system to smaller disk inside VMware ESXi
I have several Ubuntu Linux virtual machines running on VMware ESXi hosts that have all been allocated disks much larger than their required capacity. As space is now becoming an issue on our SAN, I'd ...
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Root partition full? CentOS
I'm running CentOS 5.4 and my / is full. I wanted to install gparted but in order to do that I must install Priorities and it's when I get an error saying / is full so I can't go forward.
Here's some ...
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Resize the /var directory in redhat enterprise edition 4
I am running NDB mysql. the log files fills up the /var directory. therefore i cant start the ndbd service now. as a temporary fix, i have deleted the log files and again working fine. but again the ...
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LVM + ReiserFS caches totally wrong information and breaks system?
A server, to which I only have remote access has a raid with lvm and reiserfs partitions on it. I will limit the information to the /home partition in the following, other partitions have the same ...
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Debian - resize root ext3 partition on remote system
Hello
I want to resize (shrink) root ext3 fs partition of remote Debian 5.0 system. There is no LVM.
Is it possible without using a livecd? E.g. via custom initrd.img.
And second problem - Can I ...
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Install ImageMagick with liquid-rescale support
I have installed ImageMagick 6.5.8 from source on Ubuntu 8.10 followed by the instructions listed here
> tar xvfz ImageMagick.tar.gz
> cd ImageMagick-6.5.8
> ./configure
> make
> sudo ...
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How can I minimise the size of an ext3 partition (and its LVM logical volume)?
I am using LVM on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic). I have a single LVM physical volume (and a single volume group).
I have an ext3 filesystem inside an LVM logical volume which I no longer use, but for the time ...
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How to change size of remote ssh session in my terminal?
I use the "Terminal" app. for SSH'ing to my Ubuntu VPS. The problem I have is that the width/size of the remote terminal doesn't fill my Terminal app. window, only part.
How can I make it fill the ...
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How do I resize the partition of my guest Ubuntu OS in a VMware Fusion VM?
I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 in a VM in VMware Fusion 3.0. I understand how to resize the hard disk (Fusion makes that easy with a GUI). But how do I resize the partition in Ubuntu?
mount -l tells me: ...
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How to reallocate space between two LVM VGs?
I have two disk partitions, say sda1 and sda2, each containing a VG.
sda1 -> VG_SYS
sda2 -> VG_GUESTS
VG_SYS has a number of LV, one for every partition I needed.
The problem is that VG_SYS has ...
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Is it Possible to Reduce (Shrink) a Linux Software RAID10 Array?
I'm trying to shrink a Linux software RAID10 array. I have already shrunk the FS volume. The md volume is 64kb chunks w/ "far" mode. Is it possible to safely shrink the underlying RAID array in ...
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ESXi 4.0 resize a VM hard drive size
I am using ESXi 4.0, I have a few VM's on the machine. I have just copied teh .vmx and .vmdk to create a new copy of the VM. They are normally 100GB but I want to create a few of these that are ...
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Recover from power outage during ntfsresize?
After upgrading disks on our local server, I was using the "Parted Magic" boot disk along with gparted to move & resize an NTFS partition. I believe it uses the 'ntfsresize' tool internally.
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How can I resize a regular (non-LVM) partition?
Sorry for my poor English, I hope you will understand me.
A month ago I set up a Ubuntu server with a 500GB HDD, while installing the system I created regular, non-LVM, partitions - here's their ...
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Resizing Xen guests using LVM
I have a RHEL 5.4 server running as a Xen Dom0, and wish to install several RHEL 5.4 DomU guests using LVM as the guest disks. I have created the following two LVs:
xen-test02-root VM-VG -wi-a- ...
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Resize debian /tmp partition
My /tmp partition keeps running out of space on a very large SQL query. How can I make the /tmp partition bigger?
Thanks
Tom
EDIT:
Here are the outputs from the requested commands
blkid
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How do I get a Xen domU to notice a change in the block size of one of its phy devices?
I'm running lvm in my Xen domU, and I can increase the size of a logical volume on the fly, and inside the domU I can increase the size of the filesystem on the fly to the size of the domU's block ...
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How do I restore a partimage image to a smaller drive?
Without thinking, I made a partimage image of a ~1TB ext3 partition, which only actually contained about 2GB of data, so gzipped down to that size. I then wiped it and used it for something else.
I'd ...
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Online resize of mounted ext3 logical volume
I am on SLES10 and am trying to extend the size of /usr I did:
lvextend -L +5G /dev/vg00/vol03
which seemed to work. Now when I try to do:
resize2fs /dev/vg00/vol03 11G
I get:
an ... is ...
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Does a resize of a partition typically stretch the existing size of the used space on your file system?
On a dual boot system (Vista/Jaunty) I wanted to take some unallocated space and enlarge my ext3 partition. Upon doing so I noticed that the disk check that runs from parted kept failing at the end ...
