Root disk partiotion resize help

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Posted by feronso, 12-26-2014, 08:49 AM
Hello, I am new with OVH dedicated hosting server, i got the server which came with the cPanel installed. partitions was setup by default. but now the main root mounted partition which is total size of 20GB is nearly full only 800MB left. and i m not able to Upgrade cPanel/WHM because of low disk issue. Here is the OVH default setup /dev/root mounted to / which have only 20GB and /dev/md4 mounted to /home which have 1.8TB. its OVH. i have research on net and found some guide about resizing, but i m not sure with steps because most of articles are General. so i need your help if some one provide me exact steps here because. I have complete data in this server and i don't want to lose it. just want to resize /dev/root from 20GB to 100GB.
Posted by Host_MAX, 12-26-2014, 04:39 PM
http://geekpeek.net/resize-filesystem-fdisk-resize2fs/ That link might help you. Be very careful when re-sizing partitions, one wrong move and *poof* there goes your data. If you're not comfortable doing this, maybe contract a server management company like platinum server management to look into the issue for you.
Posted by Srv24x7, 12-30-2014, 08:45 AM
Hi, I dont think those steps would be helpful. I can see you have /home in a RAID array and / is not a part of it. Both of them are different. If you try resizing, you will surely loose the data. Resizing with no data loss is only possible with LVM partitions.