Increasing the / partition space in LINUX

[Ranjith M]

Hello All,

If i need to increase the size of / partition in RHEL 4 is that possible.

- If i have a / native partition and i create a new LVM partition /dev/hada7 can i add that created space to / to extend the space?

[Ivan Ferreira]

You can extend the / file system only if it is over LVM devices. If / is a simple partition, you cannot extend it, you should find a way to move data from / to a mounted file system.

[Ranjith M]

Thanks for above reply.

So there is no way to extend linux partition unless they are a part of logical volume??

And any ways to extend swap partition in Linux

Thanks and Regards,

Ranjith

[Ivan Ferreira]

Instead of extend the swap partition, you can add multiple swap partitions, all of them will be used.

[Venilton Junior]

As Ivan answerede before, u can add multiple swap partitions.

But instead of that, try to add more memory to your server.

If you're using LVM, you can do an online extension of your LV.

If your / isn't running with LVM, you can extend it only in offline mode.

regards.

[Ranjith M]

Hi,

Could you explain what you mean by extending in offline mode.

Thanks and Regards,

Ranjith

[palaniappan.sp]

Hi,
Normally u can't increase the root filesystem in a system, if u have not configured the LVM during the installation itself.
But i think there is one possibility of extending the root filesystem w/o LVM thru Veriats Volume Manager is possible, but i have not tried yet.

regds
Palani