FC4 - Installing larger HD

[hallikainen]

I'm running Fedora Core 4 on a machine with a 100GB hard drive. I've used CloneZilla to create an image, then transfer that image to a 500GB drive. It works, but is only using the 100GB, since that's what the image was. Most of the documentation I've seen on dealing with this deal with resizing partitions, but do not deal with logical volumes. Here's what I get from df:

[harold@sujan ~]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
107G 61G 41G 60% /
/dev/hda1 99M 93M 1.3M 99% /boot
/dev/shm 502M 0 502M 0% /dev/shm
[harold@sujan ~]$

I'd really appreciate it if someone could point me to documentation on increasing / to use the remainder of the drive.

THANKS!

Harold

[Kendoka]

my assumption would be that you increase the LVM partition and then from there increase the internal LVM partitions as required. Admittedly I don't use LVM

[JohnVV]

hi hallikainen first FC4 is an antique end of life was
Fedora Core 4: : Active until 2006-08-07
but if you NEED to use it then

i seem to remember ( i used lvm for 2 mo. in early '06 and hated it) someplace in
System tools there is a GUI to edit it
or use your disk 1 install cd

[hallikainen]

Thanks for the response so far! Part of the reason for going to the larger hard drive is to allow the upgrade to F9. I tried it and it ran out of space. Fedora 4 continues to be getting yum updates, but I do want to update it. I've got so many modified configs and various applications installed that I want to try to do an upgrade instead of a clean install. I can see that it would take a long time to do a clean install and then try to modify all the configs, install applications, etc.

I've just done another backup image of the FC4 drive and will mess with it tomorrow, hopefully not breaking it.

Thanks!

Harold

[JohnVV]

Fedora 4 continues to be getting yum updates

well then you ARE NOT RUNNING FEDORA 4
only 8 and 9 are getting updates
also i would not !! use update / preupdate but do a fresh install of 9

[hallikainen]

Thanks for the response! Here's part of this morning's logwatch:

--------------------- yum Begin ------------------------


Packages Updated:
lvm2.i386 2.02.06-1.0.fc4
device-mapper.i386 1.02.07-2.0

---------------------- yum End -------------------------

So, it LOOKS like it's being updated. I agree that a clean install instead of an update would be preferable. I may end up that way, but as discussed above, because of all the modified configs, installed scripts, mysql databases, etc., it would be a lot of work. I'll do it if need be, but I'd sure like to avoid it!

Again, thanks for the response! I look forward to any more comments on expanding partitions when using logical volumes.

Harold

[marcrblevins]

WTF? He is getting updates. Scratching my head. Only 8 & 9 repos should only be active.

Ok, try:

yum repolist

How about this, hear me out.
Your Fedora 4 is still on the 100 gig drive. Unplug it.
Move the 500 gig as your primary drive. Install Fedora 9 on the 500 gig. When done installing Fedora9. Plug the 100 gig back on as slave or nother IDE port.
Manually restore your customize changes. When done, blow away the 100 gig and use that for a backup drive?
I personally only backup /etc, /var, & /home.

[hallikainen]

[root@sujan harold]# yum repolist

usage: yum [options] < update | install | info | remove | list |
clean | provides | search | check-update | groupinstall |
groupupdate | grouplist | groupinfo | groupremove |
makecache | localinstall | erase | upgrade | whatprovides |
localupdate | resolvedep | shell | deplist >

options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-t, --tolerant be tolerant of errors
-C run entirely from cache, don't update cache
-c [config file] config file location
-R [minutes] maximum command wait time
-d [debug level] debugging output level
-e [error level] error output level
-y answer yes for all questions
--version show Yum version and exit
--installroot=[path] set install root
--enablerepo=[repo] enable one or more repositories (wildcards allowed)
--disablerepo=[repo] disable one or more repositories (wildcards allowed)
--exclude=[package] exclude package(s) by name or glob
--obsoletes enable obsoletes processing during updates
--noplugins disable Yum plugins
[root@sujan harold]# yum list
Setting up repositories
Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: rpmforge
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: rpmforge
[root@sujan harold]#


On backups, I like to do "bare metal backups" to external USB drives. I use g4l or CloneZilla for this. I also use rysnc to copy /home and a few other directories to a backup server.

I'll mess with this some more tomorrow. If I have to do a fresh install, I suspect this will be a long term project since I can only work on it a few hours a week (something about my day job getting in the way).

THANKS!

Harold