[wellylug] Adding disk space

Cliff Pratt enkidu at cliffp.com
Wed Dec 27 22:59:22 NZDT 2006


Rob Giltrap wrote:
> I've been shuffling around my server setup now that I'm using vmware server
> 
> I started off with three separate 25GB partitions running Solaris, 
> Ubuntu & WinXP.
> 
> I then installed VMware server on the AMD64 Ubuntu 6.10 base operating 
> system and starting hosting a Solaris 10 virtual server and intend to 
> ditch the WinXP.
> 
> I now wish to reclaim the 50GB space allocated to the original Solaris 
> and WinXP partitions and add it to Ubuntu file system. I have never 
> added to an existing file system (ext3) so wanted to get some pointers 
> on the easiest way to do this.
> 
Say your new partition is /dev/hdb3 (plucking things out of the air).

Make a file system on it.

Make a mount point such /some/place/you/need/space

In /etc/fstab add a line such as...

/dev/hdb3 /some/place/you/need/space ext3 defaults 0 0 (Check this - it 
is from memory)

mount -a

Cheers,

Cliff




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