The system was the self contained version of cPanel running on top of CentOS 5.x, under the free version of vmware,
Luckily the file system I needed to expand was at the end of the disk (/dev/sda5):
root@cpanel-dev [~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 9.2G 4.3G 4.5G 49% /
Using vmware I expanded the disk by simply adding space to the existing disk, after which the disk now has 26gb of space:
Model: VMware Virtual disk (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 26.8GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 32.3kB 313MB 313MB primary ext3 boot
2 313MB 2459MB 2147MB primary ext3
3 2459MB 6662MB 4203MB primary linux-swap
4 6662MB 17.2GB 10.5GB extended
5 6663MB 17.2GB 10.5GB logical ext3
In order to resize the disk, I downloaded a copy of the parted magic live cd.
Reboot the system and boot off the parted live cd.
The first thing that needed to be done was resize the extended partition 4 to the end of the disk. After this was completed, I resized partition 5 to the end of the disk.
Apply changes.
Reboot.
The disk and filesystem was automatically resized:
root@cpanel-dev [~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 18G 4.3G 13G 26% /
Eh I got stuck about half way through that, this guide seemed to have a few of the missing steps, that at least confused me. I am new at this lol.
ReplyDeleteDunno if I can post anything here or not but here it is http://draalin.com/using-parted-magic-to-resize-a-partition/
Lots of screenshots are nice.