Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1945 mails)

[Ben DJ <bendj095124367913213465@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I've successfully resized (grow & decrease) LVMs within a given Volume
Group numerous times.

Now I'd like to resize a Volume Group AND its parent partition, and am
unclear as to the right/safe method.

I have:

        /dev/sda  500 GB
                "/boot" /dev/sda1 200 MB LinuxNative, Ext4
                (unallocated space) 100 GB
                 /dev/sda3 200 GB LinuxLVM
                        VG0 200 GB
                                "/" (root)      LV_A  50 GB Ext4
                                "/home" LV_B 100 GB  Ext4

I'd like to

        (1) grow /dev/sda3 at the "front end" to use up the available 100 GB
        (2) grow the VG0 to use 100% of the now-larger /dev/sda3

Since "/" is ON the target partition, I've tried booting from the
Opensuse 11.2 Live KDE CD and using its Partition Manager, but it
tells me that /dev/sda4 is "in use", and unavailable for edit/resize.

Before I go trying more brute-force methods, and subsequently losing
my data, I thought I'd ask -- what's the RIGHT way to get this
expansion done?

Thanks,

BenDJ
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