Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Hi, While I have not tried this myself, I know that parted can be used to resize partitions without data loss. I would backup the data on the server prior to trying resizing, then try to resize. You may use some of the ideas from this howto (even though you are trying to go the opposite way): http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/resizing-ext3-partitions-with-parted The ideal situation is to have the following: /dev/hda1 for /boot /dev/hda2 for / /dev/hda3 fo /var extended partition /dev/hda5 swap /dev/hda6 for /deb/drbd0 /dev/hda7 drbd metadata However your system configuration may not allow for that or you may not want to have a separate var, etc... HTH, Diego Eddie Mbabaali wrote: > I am trying to use drbd for NFS servers that are running on SLES 10. There was > no separate partition created for the meta files during install but I have alot > of space available. I can not repartition the servers because they are in > production and I fear to encounter data loss/recovery issues. Is it possible to > create the block devices without losing any data or resizing existing > filesystems. Can I actually use drbd with a sym link /dev/drbX /mnt/reports ? > > > Thanks in advance for any tips or pointers. > > Eddie > > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user -- Diego Julian Remolina System Administrator - Systems Support Specialist III Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience Georgia Institute of Technology Phone (404) 385-0127 Fax (404) 894-2291 315 Ferst Drive Atlanta, GA 30332-0363