Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-21 Thread csanyipal
Pascal Hambourg writes: > csanyi...@gmail.com a écrit : >> >> I want to create one LV for /usr and one LV for /var. >> But I can't create a LV with: >> # lvcreate --size 10.10G -n usr bubba >> Rounding up size to full physical extent 10.10 GiB >> /dev/bubba/usr: not found: device not cleared >

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-21 Thread Gustavo S. L.
A small contribution, perhaps unnecessary. To change the size of a lvs with lvreduce or lvextend is important to use the resize2fs and e2fsck command. Good luck in solving the problem On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > csanyi...@gmail.com a écrit : > > > > I want to creat

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-21 Thread Pascal Hambourg
csanyi...@gmail.com a écrit : > > I want to create one LV for /usr and one LV for /var. > But I can't create a LV with: > # lvcreate --size 10.10G -n usr bubba > Rounding up size to full physical extent 10.10 GiB > /dev/bubba/usr: not found: device not cleared > Aborting. Failed to wipe start o

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-18 Thread csanyipal
Pascal Hambourg writes: > csanyi...@gmail.com a écrit : >> >> Finally, I solved the problem by doing the followings: >> # lvresize --size 455.5G /dev/mapper/bubba-storage >> # e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/bubba-storage > > Glad you were lucky. > >> What is my goal? >> >> Filesystem Siz

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-15 Thread csanyipal
Jonathan Dowland writes: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 08:25:09AM +0200, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: >> I bought the headless powerpc server here: >> http://www.excitostore.com/ > > If you mean the Excito B3, it would appear to be ARM, not PowerPC. > That's good for you because ARM is still a support

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-15 Thread csanyipal
Jonathan Dowland writes: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 08:25:09AM +0200, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: >> I bought the headless powerpc server here: >> http://www.excitostore.com/ > > If you mean the Excito B3, it would appear to be ARM, not PowerPC. > That's good for you because ARM is still a support

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 08:25:09AM +0200, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: > I bought the headless powerpc server here: > http://www.excitostore.com/ If you mean the Excito B3, it would appear to be ARM, not PowerPC. That's good for you because ARM is still a supported architecture in Debian, and Power

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread csanyipal
Pascal Hambourg writes: > csanyi...@gmail.com a écrit : >> >> Finally, I solved the problem by doing the followings: >> # lvresize --size 455.5G /dev/mapper/bubba-storage >> # e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/bubba-storage > > Glad you were lucky. > >> Now, I can to use parted to resize my partitions. >> W

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread csanyipal
Pascal Hambourg writes: > csanyi...@gmail.com a écrit : >> >> Finally, I solved the problem by doing the followings: >> # lvresize --size 455.5G /dev/mapper/bubba-storage >> # e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/bubba-storage > > Glad you were lucky. > >> Now, I can to use parted to resize my partitions. >> W

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread csanyipal
Pascal Hambourg writes: > csanyi...@gmail.com a écrit : >> >> Finally, I solved the problem by doing the followings: >> # lvresize --size 455.5G /dev/mapper/bubba-storage >> # e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/bubba-storage > > Glad you were lucky. > >> Now, I can to use parted to resize my partitions. >> W

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
csanyi...@gmail.com a écrit : > Gary Dale writes: > >> On 14/06/15 09:12 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >>> There is no partition to correct. The problem is in the LV bubba/storage >>> and its filesystem. >>> >> If you read the original post, it looks like the e2rsize >> failed. Therefor the only pro

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread csanyipal
Gary Dale writes: > On 14/06/15 09:12 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> csanyi...@gmail.com a écrit : >>> Hello, >>> >>> on my headless Debian GNU/Linux Jessie server I want to resize >>> partitions. >> Why ? The use of LVM should avoid the need to resize partitions (PVs). >> >>> root@b2:~# e2fsck -f

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 14/06/15 09:12 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: csanyi...@gmail.com a écrit : Hello, on my headless Debian GNU/Linux Jessie server I want to resize partitions. Why ? The use of LVM should avoid the need to resize partitions (PVs). root@b2:~# e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/bubba-storage e2fsck 1.42.12 (2

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
csanyi...@gmail.com a écrit : > > Finally, I solved the problem by doing the followings: > # lvresize --size 455.5G /dev/mapper/bubba-storage > # e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/bubba-storage Glad you were lucky. > Now, I can to use parted to resize my partitions. > What is my goal? > > Filesystem

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 14/06/15 12:40 AM, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: Gary Dale writes: On 13/06/15 03:19 PM, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, on my headless Debian GNU/Linux Jessie server I want to resize partitions. So far I did followings: root@b2:~# df -T FilesystemType 1K-blocksUse

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
csanyi...@gmail.com a écrit : > Hello, > > on my headless Debian GNU/Linux Jessie server I want to resize > partitions. Why ? The use of LVM should avoid the need to resize partitions (PVs). > root@b2:~# e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/bubba-storage > e2fsck 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014) > Pass 1: Checking inodes

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 14/06/15 08:26 AM, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: csanyi...@gmail.com writes: Gary Dale writes: On 13/06/15 03:19 PM, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: [snipped] My headless powerpc box can't boot from CD because it hasn't CD device. It only has USB drive. Furthermore, it can't boot with an usual s

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread csanyipal
csanyi...@gmail.com writes: > Gary Dale writes: >> On 13/06/15 03:19 PM, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: [snipped] > My headless powerpc box can't boot from CD because it hasn't CD > device. It only has USB drive. Furthermore, it can't boot with an usual > system rescue image installed on USB stick,

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-13 Thread csanyipal
Gary Dale writes: > On 13/06/15 03:19 PM, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: >> Hello, >> >> on my headless Debian GNU/Linux Jessie server I want to resize >> partitions. So far I did followings: >> >> root@b2:~# df -T >> FilesystemType 1K-blocksUsed Available Use% >> Mounted on >

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-13 Thread Gary Dale
On 13/06/15 03:19 PM, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, on my headless Debian GNU/Linux Jessie server I want to resize partitions. So far I did followings: root@b2:~# df -T FilesystemType 1K-blocksUsed Available Use% Mounted on /dev/root ext3 962184

Re: Resizing partitions on production environment

2009-07-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 10:42:14AM +0500, Daniel Suleyman wrote: > Dear all, i have big issues. > I've installed lenny on my server, installed all programs and ran it on > production, ut now i need to install oracle on it. > My artitions have sizes > user:~# df -kh > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use%

Re: Resizing partitions on production environment

2009-07-08 Thread Daniel Suleyman
ok, Ihave hardware raid, it make my life dificult or it will be transparent to the OS? I am installing oracle-xe-universal from sources.list it give me error no spce for /etc/dp?? (don't remember dir) I changed dpkg options setting instdir to /home/ but after oracle package outputed error cant fin

Re: Resizing partitions on production environment

2009-07-08 Thread Noah Dain
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:38 PM, lee wrote: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 10:42:14AM +0500, Daniel Suleyman wrote: > >> and oracle wont install becouse my root partition have less size >> that oracle need. how I an resize my partitions on fly? or at least >> from livecd but with guaranteed no data losse

Re: Resizing partitions on production environment

2009-07-08 Thread lee
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 10:42:14AM +0500, Daniel Suleyman wrote: > and oracle wont install becouse my root partition have less size > that oracle need. how I an resize my partitions on fly? or at least > from livecd but with guaranteed no data losses. Thank you in > advance, Daniel In any case,

Re: Resizing partitions on production environment

2009-07-08 Thread Csanyi Pal
Daniel Suleyman writes: > Dear all, i have big issues. > I've installed lenny on my server, installed all programs and ran it > on production, ut now i need to install oracle on it. > and oracle wont install becouse my root partition have less size > that oracle need. how I an resize my partitio

Re: Resizing partitions on production environment

2009-07-07 Thread Daniel Suleyman
sorry forgot to cat fstab user:~# cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/cciss/c0d0p9 /home ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/cciss/c0d0p8 /tmp ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/cciss/c0d0p5 /usr ext3 default

Re: Resizing partitions on production environment

2009-07-07 Thread Suno Ano
If the filesystem allows for it, you can do it online. There, in line 389, is an example of howto grow xfs: http://sunoano.name/ws/public_xhtml/lvm.html#resizing_volumes pgpul0F7Q9xfp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-29 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 07:45, Andrew Biggadike wrote: > >From GNU's parted webpage > (http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html) under Features: "For > ext2, ext3 and reiserfs: the start of the partition must stay fixed." > This would prevent me from doing what I had intended. Does this mean

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-29 Thread Andrew Biggadike
On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 22:01, Alex Malinovich wrote: > parted is very safe. And it's actually quite easy to use. If you can use > ftp (or any other pseudo-shell program) you'll be right at home in > parted. And if you want to learn more about linux, using a Windows > program such as PM won't help ma

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 20:16, Andrew Biggadike wrote: > What exactly do you mean by butcher your partition numbers? I haven't > done it yet and might like to try parted - not necessarily for ethical > reasons (though I certainly understand what you're saying), but just to > learn more about linux.

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-28 Thread Andrew Biggadike
On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 12:46, Alex Malinovich wrote: > Sorry I got into this thread a bit late. Since it looks like you're > already using Partition Magic, just an ethical heads up for future > reference. With the exception of working with NTFS partitions, GNU > parted, in my experience, works much

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 23:29, Derek Gladding wrote: > The only possible weirdness I could see with your configuration is that > /boot is not at the start of the disc, which is a setup I've never used. > Gut instinct says it shouldn't be a problem, but I wouldn't bet my life > (or critical data) on

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-28 Thread Derek Gladding
On Wednesday 26 June 2002 09:01 pm, Andrew Biggadike wrote: > I have a laptop that's dual booting Windows 2000 and Debian (woody), > and I want to resize my partitions so I can give some of the space on > the Windows partition to Debian's /. Does anyone have any > recommendations as to the best wa

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 20:37, Andrew Biggadike wrote: > Ah, yes, I did forget to mention: I am using NT Loader to dual boot, so > I believe lilo is on /dev/hda3 (though I'm still not exactly clear about > everything). Using the Windows loader shouldn't complicate matters at > all, should it? Sorry

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-28 Thread Carlos Sousa
On 27 Jun 2002 21:37:53 -0400 Andrew Biggadike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah, yes, I did forget to mention: I am using NT Loader to dual boot, > so I believe lilo is on /dev/hda3 (though I'm still not exactly clear > about everything). Using the Windows loader shouldn't complicate > matters at

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-27 Thread Andrew Biggadike
Ah, yes, I did forget to mention: I am using NT Loader to dual boot, so I believe lilo is on /dev/hda3 (though I'm still not exactly clear about everything). Using the Windows loader shouldn't complicate matters at all, should it? Thanks for the information! Andrew On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 18:28,

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-27 Thread Carlos Sousa
On 27 Jun 2002 06:53:05 -0400 Andrew Biggadike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You mentioned a rescue CD, how do I go about creating one? Is that a > PartitionMagic rescue CD or a Linux rescue CD? The Debian CDs can be used as rescue CDs. Otherwise, you can either download boot diskette images from

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-27 Thread Carlos Sousa
On 27 Jun 2002 00:01:43 -0400 Andrew Biggadike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a laptop that's dual booting Windows 2000 and Debian (woody), > and I want to resize my partitions so I can give some of the space on > the Windows partition to Debian's /. Does anyone have any I have a dual boot

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-27 Thread Andrew Biggadike
I have received those error messages when I have loaded up Partition Magic (7.0) as well - I haven't done anything yet though. You mentioned a rescue CD, how do I go about creating one? Is that a PartitionMagic rescue CD or a Linux rescue CD? Instead of creating new partitions, do you know if it

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-27 Thread Derek Gladding
On Wednesday 26 June 2002 09:59 pm, Travis Crump wrote: [snip] > > I am in this situation with the exception that my Windows 2000 > partition is NTFS so I assumed off the bat that there wouldn't be a > linux solution. I've resized by NTFS partition twice. My method was > to just shrink the NTFS

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-26 Thread Travis Crump
Andrew Biggadike wrote: I have a laptop that's dual booting Windows 2000 and Debian (woody), and I want to resize my partitions so I can give some of the space on the Windows partition to Debian's /. Does anyone have any recommendations as to the best way to go about doing this? If I use a W

Re: resizing partitions

2001-03-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 10:18:15AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat 24 Mar 01, 1:06 PM, Michael P. Soulier said: > > Hey people. I've recently found out that my /tmp partition might > > be too small for a particular application. I know that fips is > > supposed t

Re: resizing partitions

2001-03-24 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
parted and ext2resize. also, partition magic knows about ext2, so that's your easiest option. just get a partition magic bootdisk. DON'T use fips. wrong tool for the job. fips doesn't know how to split ext2 filesystems. only vfat and dos. pete On Sat 24 Mar 01, 1:06 PM, Michael P. Soulier