How can I extend this partition?
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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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I don't think you can do anything as long as the two partitions are locked.
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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@gjacobse there is no locking at the actually partition level.
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Is there anything I can do at this point?
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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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@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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@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 -
@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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@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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@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.
