Extending Home Space

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#1 Tue, 10/22/2013 - 14:01
JamesSimpson

Extending Home Space

Hi All,

I'm seriously confused at the moment, as I have done this before on my other server, but I cannot for the life of me remember how I have done it.

Basically I installed everything from scratch on a brand new server, but for some reason I only have 20GB of usable space, when there is 900GB partitioned into logical volume "home"

I think the volume that is being used at the moment is "root", but how can i mount the "home" volume into /home/?

Tue, 10/22/2013 - 14:02
JamesSimpson

My current FSTAB

#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Thu Oct 17 20:22:04 2013
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-root /   ext4    grpquota,usrquota,rw    0   1
UUID=f4337b7e-8e33-46ad-84eb-202b50186645 /boot                   ext2    defaults        1 2
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-swap swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev        0 0
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
/var/tmpMnt /tmp ext3 loop,rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 00
Wed, 10/23/2013 - 12:05
JamesSimpson

Anyone have any ideas?

Wed, 10/23/2013 - 14:13
andreychek

Hmm, I don't see a separate partition for "/home".

What output does this produce:

df -h

Wed, 10/23/2013 - 14:25
JamesSimpson

Output is as follows

[root@50 ~]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-root
                       20G  4.0G   15G  22% /
tmpfs                 5.9G     0  5.9G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/md0              756M   56M  663M   8% /boot
/var/tmpMnt           2.0G   68M  1.9G   4% /tmp
Wed, 10/23/2013 - 19:45
andreychek

Hmm, well, it appears there that your largest partition is 20GB, and that's currently in use for the / partition.

Do you perhaps have a partition that's not currently being mounted?

-Eric

Thu, 10/24/2013 - 03:01
JamesSimpson

Yes I think that is the issue, I have created a volume group "home" which I've tried mounting to /home/ but it wouldnt let me.

Thu, 10/24/2013 - 03:03
JamesSimpson
Failed to save mount : Mount failed :
 
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-home,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so
Thu, 10/24/2013 - 03:44
JamesSimpson

I managed to figure it out, I reformatted the partition using the ext4 filetype and then it allowed me to mount it on /home/

Thu, 10/24/2013 - 09:38
andreychek

Super, I'm glad you got that working!

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