extend root partion in rhel5ver

[rajesh73]

Hi All

How to extend root partion in rhel 5 through online

Thanks & Regds
rajesh

[iinfi1]

hi

Could you please let us know how the root partition is made. is the formatted ext3 from a block device directly or have u created a LVM?
post the output of lvdisplay and mount commands.

[Jan Soska]

hi, check this solved thread with reat comments..

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1440126


Jan

[bullz]

Hey,

Try this. it went smooth for me.

lvextend -L +1024 /dev/vg01/xyz /dev/sda6
ext2online /dev/rootvg/root

if not 2, use ext3