Stefan Hundhammer said the following on 10/29/2008 01:21 PM:
On Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2008, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Oh WHEN will openSUSE ship a partitioning tool with their DVD that will allow non-destructive partition resizing? Does anyone have a Bugzilla report I can vote on to request this?
parted can do that, but that of course requires that there is some free disk space directly behind the partition to be enlarged. Most modern file systems are capable of resizing.
The YaST2 partitioner is little more than a graphical front-end for parted (and lvm-tools and evms-tools etc.). But it does not necessarily provide each and every exotic feature of the underlying tools; sometimes you have to use the tools directly.
http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/resizing-ext3-partitions-with-parted http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_resizing_ext3_partitions
As those articles point out, you have to unmount the ext3 partition, even under LVM, to resize it. That means if you want to resize a critical partition like /boot, /, /var, /usr or in come cases /home and /tmp, you have to shut down and boot from a LiveCD or USB. This is not always possible with an enterprise system as the need t expand the volume/FS size may, like having the machine up and running, be critical to the business. The ReiserFS, however, can be resized while mounted. I'd advise using the ResiserFS if you ever need to do a live re-sizing. -- There is no legitimate religion apart from truth. --John Calvin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org