[ale] mint 13 vm running out of storage space

[Don Kramer]

Yeah I don't remember all those steps when I did a backup first to a
virtual drive, then restored to a new drive, other than the uuid of the
swap I think. I think I had to boot up the new drive with gparted too to
increase the size of the ext4 partition.



On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Michael B. Trausch <mbt at naunetcorp.com>wrote:

>  On 10/13/2013 10:04 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
>
> Thanks for taking the time to post this.  I'm afraid a good bit of it is
> over my head.  But, I am keeping it on hand in case I can use it later.
>
>
> I would recommend spending some time reading up on filesystems and LVM,
> then.  They're too useful to ignore.  While I've seen next to nobody use
> Windows "dynamic disks", for example (not that it bothers me—Linux supports
> accessing them just fine), LVM is an extremely useful toolset and not that
> hard to learn.  There are a handful of utilities that you have to learn how
> to use, but they're very well organized and just do little things (for
> example, the utilities starting with pv* are physical volume utilities, the
> utilities starting with vg* are the volume group utilities, the utilities
> starting with lv* are logical volume utillities, etc.).  They're named
> after what they do, and the man pages are useful.
>
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