how to extend /root partions
how can i extend the /root directory partion?
thank you
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Guru
Community Member
3711 points
Are you literally talking about /root (which is generally just a subdirectory of /) or do you mean the / partition as a whole.
Typically, you can only grow / if it's the last partition on a disk and you have spare blocks free on that disk. If / is on a logical volume, you've got a bit more flexibility in how you grow it.
If you literally mean /root, you can always do a bind-mount from another filesystem hosted on another disk or partition or do an overlay mount of a new disk/partition at /root.
Beyond those cases, you're kinda nicked.
Guru
10133 points
Hi Tayeb Ahmed Ali Rashed, Incidentally, please keep this article by Red Hat at https://access.redhat.com/solutions/540013 in mind. While you mentioned extending a filesystem (I suspect you might mean an XFS file system), that article addresses the limitation of shrinking an XFS filesystem.
Hope it goes well, remember to measure twice and cut once.
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