Instruction Manual
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File System Expansion for Linux
Overview
The following describes how to expand file systems (Linux) that have
been created on volumes that have increased in size, while preserving
all of your existing data. After you have added more hard disk drives to
increase the storage capacity of a BIG volume, you must use the supple-
mental procedure described below to allow the expanded capacity to be
recognized by Linux.
The following example illustrates a hard disk growing from a JBOD to a
BIG Storage Policy.
A software tool named
GNU Parted (available from http://www.gnu.org/
software/parted/parted.html) can be used to grow the partition that was
created in a JBOD Storage Policy to a BIG Storage Policy disk.
GNU Parted easily organizes your hard drive by creating, resizing, copy-
ing your partitions on a Linux system.
Procedure
Growing partition/volume with GNU Parted:
To extend a volume, follow these steps:
Start parted by typing parted /dev/hdc. (where /dev/hdc is the
1.
device path of the hard disk for the system) This will bring up the
parted console indicated by the parted prompt.
# parted / dev / hdc
(parted)
