On Friday 14 September 2012 09:26:11 Laurent wrote:
Le 2012-09-14 10:07, Tony Molloy a écrit :
OOPS that was fat fingers. I didn't mean to send it.
I figured out parted can do the job for me but the interface is not the best. Can't use gparted as I said I have to do this remotely.
Even if you need to do this remotely, you can use gparted through ssh with X11 forwarding.
Worked like a dream. Can't understand how I didn't think of looking for an rpm of gparted. I only ever used the live-cd version before. Thanks.
I'll certainly have a look at gdisk
Sorry for the noise. I'll let people know how I get on after the weekend.
If you consider resizing your RAID volumes one day, I'll recommend the already proposed solution: use LVM, with physical volume directly on the disk device. No partitionning. Why ? Because, as far as I known, parted developers has decided to remove the unmaintained/old code to resize ext* filesystems from parted.
The partition sizes required are fixed for their lifetime so LVM is not needed only adding complexity.
Tony
I don't know about gdisk features. Perhaps, it can do better than parted...
Regards,