On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:23:31PM +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > Given the partition which is a physical volume can be enlarged because > there is free space directly after the end of the current partition, you > then can do following very easily: > > 1) fdisk /dev/<device> > 1a) delete the partition to enlarge > 1b) re-create the partition from the same starting point to the new size > 1c) save the changes > > 2) partprobe /dev/<device> > to let the kernel know about the change Will this work if any partitions on <device> are mounted? When I have run fdisk to modify a partition table, the kernel complains that it can't reread the partition table if there are mounted filesystems on the target disk. If the root filesystem is on the target disk, a reboot might be required. (In the past, fdisk has alerted the kernel if there's been a partition table change, so partprobe might not be needed.) And of course, have backups when messing with the partition table. :) --keith -- kkeller at speakeasy.net -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100219/4badfbb2/attachment-0005.sig>