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Appendix C File System
Expansion for Linux
Overview
This appendix describes the procedures needed with Linux for expanding file systems that have
been created on volumes that have increased in size, while preserving all of your existing data.
After you have added more hard disk drives to increase the storage capacity of a BIG volume,
you must use the supplemental procedure described below to allow the expanded capacity to be
recognized by Linux.
The following example illustrates a hard disk growing from a JBOD to a BIG Storage Policy.
A software tool named
GNU Parted (available from http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html)
can be used to grow the partition that was created in JBOD Storage Policy to a BIG Storage
Policy disk.
GNU Parted easily organizes your hard drive by creating, resizing, copying your partitions on a
Linux system.
There are other third-party products are available to perform similar volume management
activities, but those products are very sophisticated and are not included in this manual.
Procedure
Growing partition/volume with GNU Parted:
To extend a volume, follow these steps:
1. Start parted by typing
parted /dev/hdc. (where /dev/hdc is the device path
of the hard disk for the system) This will bring up the parted console indicated by the
parted prompt.
# parted /dev/hdc
(parted)
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