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    How can I extend this partition?

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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller
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      Yeah, partitioning is a hard delineation below LVM. You CAN destroy the old partition and create a new one with a larger size and, in theory, it can then be resized. I've done it a bit. But it's scary.

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      • gjacobseG
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        I don't think you can do anything as long as the two partitions are locked.0_1475069964740_MRCyTri.png

        Once you had done that, it should be a simple matter of using the slider bar in the middle. GParted is a pretty useful tool, and I've used it a decent bit.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @gjacobse
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          @gjacobse there is no locking at the actually partition level.

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          • IRJI
            IRJ
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            Is there anything I can do at this point?

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @IRJ
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              @IRJ said in How can I extend this partition?:

              Is there anything I can do at this point?

              Other than the list of things that I said you could do?

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              • IRJI
                IRJ @scottalanmiller
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                @scottalanmiller said in How can I extend this partition?:

                @IRJ said in How can I extend this partition?:

                Is there anything I can do at this point?

                Other than the list of things that I said you could do?

                I don't fully understand your post.

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                • travisdh1T
                  travisdh1 @IRJ
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                  @IRJ said in How can I extend this partition?:

                  Is there anything I can do at this point?

                  I'm not sure it will work without creating another partition at this point. So start by creating a partition for the unallocated space. In short, create a new physical volume on the new partition, extend the volume group, extend the logical volume, and resize the file system.

                  pvcreate /dev/sda2
                  vgextend vgname /dev/sda2
                  lvextend lvname -l 100%FREE
                  resize2fs -p /dev/vgname/lvname
                  
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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @IRJ
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                    @IRJ said in How can I extend this partition?:

                    @scottalanmiller said in How can I extend this partition?:

                    @IRJ said in How can I extend this partition?:

                    Is there anything I can do at this point?

                    Other than the list of things that I said you could do?

                    I don't fully understand your post.

                    You can either grow the partition at the partition level OR you can use LVM and make the second partition a PV, add it to the existing VG and then grow your LV(s) on top of that. Two decent means of doing this non-destructively.

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                    • stacksofplatesS
                      stacksofplates @scottalanmiller
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                      @scottalanmiller said in How can I extend this partition?:

                      Yeah, partitioning is a hard delineation below LVM. You CAN destroy the old partition and create a new one with a larger size and, in theory, it can then be resized. I've done it a bit. But it's scary.

                      That's how I've always done it.

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                      • MattSpellerM
                        MattSpeller
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                        @IRJ - click on the yellow where it says /dev/sda5 and see if the "Resize/Move" button works - otherwise you'll have to unlock it somehow, which I think GParted can do but I don't know how.

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