[BlueOnyx:12149] Re: Increasing disk space

[Dirk Estenfeld]

Christoph,

that sounds interesting because we are also running several BO on vmware and will probably run into the not enough space problem.
How can I add an additional virtual disk to /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-home to increase space for /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-home?

Regards,
Dirk


Von: blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it] Im Auftrag von Christoph Schneeberger
Gesendet: Sonntag, 3. Februar 2013 15:38
An: blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it
Betreff: [BlueOnyx:12142] Re: Increasing disk space

Hi

I'd recommend not increasing the existing disks size but instead adding a second virtual one to the VM and then just add it to the LVM volume group and then grow the volume - both are doable while the system is online.
Growing the main disk may certainly be possible too, but you need to boot from an emergency CD/system and first grow the partition and then the filesystem and there is some room for great havoc to happen with that while the approach with a new disk is pretty fail-safe.

Hth,
Christoph

On 02/03/2013 02:27 PM, Mark E. Levy wrote:
Hello,

I need to increase the size of the disk my BO system runs on. I'm running BO on VMware, so I can easily  add space to the hard drive  in the VM. Please tell me that getting BO to see the additional free space is a s easy as rebooting...  :-)

If not, any reference points would be helpful.

TIA,
Mark




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