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I have a RHEL 5 test server in my lab that just had a hard drive upgrade. I was told by the tester that she wanted the new 1TB drive to just replace the original 500GB drive. So, I just used Clonezilla to copy the drive. It was supposed to extend the file system for me, but didn't. So now it has 500Gb used on a 1TB drive.
I looked around online for how to extend the volume group and volume to use the whole drive, but all I could come up with were instructions on how to add a drive. I found nothing on how to extend the volume group to use the whole drive. The vgextend manual is, of course, useless on the matter.
I am not a Linux expert by any stretch of the imagination. I was supporting Windows (3.1-XP) for 13 years before I got this job, and I've managed to muddle my way through a lot of Linux, HP-UX, AIX, and Solaris stuff with Google's help. I know networking, hardware, and Windows, but my knowledge of Linux and Unix is pretty low level. My fingers don't do what I tell them much of the time, so typing pretty much sucks, and I hate command line because of that. Many long commands take 5 to 10 tries before I get it right. That's probably the biggest thing holding me back from learning more about Linux, but I don't plan on changing just because of that.
Does anyone here know how to do this?
I looked around online for how to extend the volume group and volume to use the whole drive, but all I could come up with were instructions on how to add a drive. I found nothing on how to extend the volume group to use the whole drive. The vgextend manual is, of course, useless on the matter.
I am not a Linux expert by any stretch of the imagination. I was supporting Windows (3.1-XP) for 13 years before I got this job, and I've managed to muddle my way through a lot of Linux, HP-UX, AIX, and Solaris stuff with Google's help. I know networking, hardware, and Windows, but my knowledge of Linux and Unix is pretty low level. My fingers don't do what I tell them much of the time, so typing pretty much sucks, and I hate command line because of that. Many long commands take 5 to 10 tries before I get it right. That's probably the biggest thing holding me back from learning more about Linux, but I don't plan on changing just because of that.
Does anyone here know how to do this?
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