[wellylug] Adding disk space

[Rob Giltrap]

Cliff Pratt wrote:
> 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
>
>
Thanks, this will allow me to add a partition, what I actually wanted 
(and wasn't entirely clear in retrospect) was to extend the partition as 
the old redundant partitions are directly after the linux partition  
/dev/sda1
 
Thanks, Rob.