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Need help on RH EL4 AS

salem_3 — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:13:23 GMT

Hi,

I need help for changing partition size on my drive sda ,could someone tell me how .
the os is RH EL4 AS
Thanks.

Re: Need help on RH EL4 AS

Ragu_3 — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:19:03 GMT

fdisk /dev/sda

Re: Need help on RH EL4 AS

Atul Gautam — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:00:30 GMT

Hi Ryadh,

To change the partition size on /dev/sda, you can use either "fdisk" or "parted".

But remember you have to boot into Single User OR Maintenance mode. For that at the grub prompt, press "e" , then move your prompt to the line ---

kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8smp ro root=LABEL=/

then again press "e", and then at the end, add "S" and then press Enter and then press "b" to boot into single user mode.

You will then get the maintenance prompt and from here you can proceed.

Now changing partition size is a destructive method. So, make sure you have a proper backup of your partitions.

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fdisk /dev/sda

and then you can type "m" to get help.
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parted /dev/sda

type "help".

This is a simple to use tool
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So enjoy partitioning......

ATUL

Re: Need help on RH EL4 AS

David B. P. — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 04:40:20 GMT

http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_96_4842.shtm

Take care, RH4 has a customized ext3 filesystem so use only the procedure that redhat support.

Re: Need help on RH EL4 AS

George Liu_4 — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:48:00 GMT

very likely /dev/sda is already in use, and you may backup your data and use swap partition technique to do the repartition.

Re: Need help on RH EL4 AS

salem_3 — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:52:18 GMT

Thaks guys

I have done it using LVM and now i am getting more familiar with partitioning .

Regards.