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    How to increase Ubuntu /host/ubuntu/disks/root.disk

    I am NEW to Linux and have ran out of space on the /host/ubuntu/disks/root.disk. Is there a way to increase this space available for Ubuntu files.
    I have duel boot xp/ubuntu. Ubuntu is running along side or ontop of Windows if I understand correctly how I installed it. Both OS's are on the same D: physical drive which is one partition of 76 gigs of which there is 33 gigs free.

    df -h reports

    Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /host/ubuntu/disks/root.disk
    13G 13G 131M 99% /
    tmpfs 505M 0 505M 0% /lib/init/rw
    varrun 505M 200K 505M 1% /var/run
    varlock 505M 0 505M 0% /var/lock
    udev 505M 3.0M 502M 1% /dev
    tmpfs 505M 296K 505M 1% /dev/shm
    /dev/sda1 77G 34G 43G 45% /host
    lrm 505M 2.0M 503M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.27-11-generic/volatile

    gparted shows
    /dev/sda1
    ntfs
    /boot,/host D Drive
    Size 76.32 GiB
    Used 33.59 GiB
    Free 42.73 GiB
    Flags - boot

    How can I change the size of /host/ubuntu/disks/root.disk?
    Last edited by wlbragg; April 7th, 2009 at 05:59 AM.

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    Re: How to increase Ubuntu /host/ubuntu/disks/root.disk

    You can use LVPM to increase the size of the virtual drive. See here.
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    Re: How to increase Ubuntu /host/ubuntu/disks/root.disk

    You are a lifesaver, thank you very much. I wasn't sure exactly how Ubuntu was installed. This explains the whole thing in my instance. Thanks again!

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    Re: How to increase Ubuntu /host/ubuntu/disks/root.disk

    Any idea why LVPM hangs when resizing the above virtual root.disk?

    It appears to just sit there at the beginning (10%) or so of the progress meter. I let it go for a couple hours with no change in progress.

    I was resizing the 13GiB root.disk to approx. 25GiB (25600 MB in LVPM) which would leave approx 18-19GiB free space on the hard drive. After closing it and booting back into Windows I see that it made a 23GiB new.disk but after moving original and renaming new.disk to root.disk Ubuntu failed to boot. Looks like it made the virtual disk but didn't transfer any files to it?

    I ran LVPM from Ubuntu/Applications menu. I thought maybe Apache/Tomcat/MySQL servers running were possibly causing problems so I tried again with them off. No other applications running other than default Ubuntu startup.

    Am I doing something wrong or does it take several "HOURS" to create the new virtual disk on a 3200+ processor with 1 GiB ram and I should let it sit there with no progress longer? It looked like the HD light was polling at a consistent loop, if that helps any?

    Forget about the above I got it to work by reinstalling LVPM! It did take a little bit over an hour to resize the root.disk from 13GiB to 25GiB!
    Last edited by wlbragg; April 8th, 2009 at 10:31 AM. Reason: Fixed the problem

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