Reconfiguring disk

[Ferdi Castro]

Hi,
I just finished installing RH4 in a DL380G4 machine with 146G disk.
However, everything was in the / directory when I do df -k. I want somehow to partition it such that it would be mounted to diff lvol like below

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 6048352 229676 5511436 5% /
/dev/mapper/vg0-lvol7
45380656 4864628 38210800 12% /backup
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 256666 19200 224214 8% /boot
none 1990300 0 1990300 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/vg0-lvol3
4031680 40920 3785960 2% /home
/dev/mapper/vg0-lvol6
25222252 116996 23824028 1% /log
/dev/mapper/vg0-lvol2
4031680 1000524 2826356 27% /opt
/dev/mapper/vg0-lvol5
4031680 40840 3786040 2% /tmp
/dev/mapper/vg0-lvol1
6063688 2550260 3205412 45% /usr
/dev/mapper/vg0-lvol4
8063408 172072 7481736 3% /var

Do I need to reinstall or can you help me with procedures to reconfigure it. thanks much.

BR

[Ivan Ferreira]

You probably don't have enough "spare" space to create new logical volumes to move the data. So, probably, your best option is reinstall if you "just finished" the installation.

[Ferdi Castro]

Thanks for the prompt reply. I was thinkin samething. I have problems reinstalling it. Is it the same as putting the first RH disk1 then reconfigure it? I remember I forgot to manually partition it thats why it automatically did the default one. during partitioning will it automatically map lets say /usr to lvol1 then var to lvol 4 and so on.........

BR Ferdi

[Ivan Ferreira · Accepted solution]

You must manually reconfigure the logical volumes if you want another filesystem layout than the default "all in /".

See:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/ch-lvm.html

It's an old version, if you check the RHEL installation guide you find the same information.

[Ferdi Castro]

Thanks for the guide it will help a lot