Best way to add space to last partition

[techguru69]

Hi,
I have a RH 7.3 box with the last defined partition ext3 (sda10) getting too full. I am able to expand my current disk array by adding another disk and adding the space to the logical drive. What would be the best way to go about expanding the last filesystem onto the new space created? I do not have LVM and I don't beleive it would help me at this point anyways. I have access to Partition Magic ver. 8, but not sure if to use that or parted. If using one of those, how would I go about it? Possibly lose data or pretty stable?

Thanks for any help.

 

[pansophic]

Whenever using these tools there is always the possibility that you will lose data. That said, I've used both many times, and only lost data once. That was when MS went to the NTFS5 filesystem, and Partition Magic didn't support it. AFTER we lost the Windows partition that we had just installed, we found that there was a patch available.

Personally, I'd just use qtparted and expand the partition. But if the data is REALLY important and you don't want to lose it and can't back it up, I'd just create a new partition, mount the disk, copy a directory structure over to it, delete that directory structure from the old drive and then mount the new partition at that directory. Ugly, but functional.


pansophic