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by David C. Rankin :: Rate this Message:

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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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