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)
2. Type print within the parted console to bring up the volume and disk
information.
(parted) print Disk geometry for /dev/hdc: 0.000-800000.000 megabytes Disk
label type: msdos Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0.063 400000.000
primary ext2
3. Use the resize command extend the size of
volume 1 listed above.
(parted) resize 1 0.063 400000
4. Type print to verify the resize of volume 1.
(parted) print Disk geometry for /dev/hdc: 0.000-800000.000 megabytes Disk
label type: msdos Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0.063 800000.000
primary ext2
The new space should be added to the
existing drive while maintaining the data
on the volume.
Before resize:
(parted) print Disk geometry for /dev/hdc: 0.000-800000.000 megabytes Disk
label type: msdos Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0.063 400000.000
primary ext2
After resize:
(parted) print Disk geometry for /dev/hdc: 0.000-800000.000 megabytes Disk
label type: msdos Minor Start End
Type Filesystem Flags 1 0.063 800000.000
primary ext2
5. Package contents
User manual*1
AC Cable*1
USB Cable*1
ESATA 1M Cable*1
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