[rhn-users] Expanding a partition

[Rob Myroon]

I tried to do the same thing a little while ago. I ended up deleting the 
partitions and recreating them. I tried to use parted to move and resize 
the partitions but it didn't work.

I made myself a document for future reference.

http://www.telusplanet.net/~robmyr/resize/

Rob

Jim Ruddell wrote:
> All,
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> I’m wondering if any of you have expanded a partition with out data loss 
> with out using LVM. I have expanded the space on my SAN and Linux 
> recognizes the space. Red Hat support tells me I have to blow away my 
> existing data and partition and create new ones. Any thoughts? I was 
> certain that an ext2 file system could be expanded. I’m running RHEL 3 BTW.
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> Thanks,
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>  
> 
> Jim Ruddell
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