[arch-general] New Page added to wiki - Add_New_Partitions_To_Existing_System

David C. Rankin drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com
Mon Jul 6 17:45:53 EDT 2009


On Thursday 02 July 2009 08:31:03 pm Armando M. Baratti wrote:
> David C. Rankin wrote:
> > Listmates,
> > 
> > 	After running out of room on my / partition on my Archlinux install and recovering by adding a couple of additional partitions, I put together a little howto in the wiki concerning the process in case anyone else finds themselves in the same situation:
> > 
> > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Add_New_Partitions_To_Existing_System
> > 
> > 	As always, writing it up for the wiki took a whole lot longer than fixing the original problem, but now it's done. Look it over, add to it, find all my typos, etc.. Hopefully it will be useful.
> > 
> > 
> Hi David,
> 
> Another option would be LVM.
> With it you could easily grow your (logical) partitions and even adding 
> another disk if needed.
> 
> 
> 
> Armando
> 

Thanks Armando.

	One of these days I will have to learn LVM. That's one part of the filesystem schemes I haven't gotten to yet.


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