How to create a new partition?

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I was looking for a similar software to GParted but for KDE and LVM.
Is there any for KDE and LVM?
I want to create a new partition, how do i do that?

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Hi. Why don’t you use Yast → System → Partitionsomething?

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Use ‘cfdisk’ command in terminal.

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Please, please use the partionmanager from Yast.
But first READ READ READ before you let it make YOUR decisions final…

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Knurpht wrote:

>
> Please, please use the partionmanager from Yast.
> But first READ READ READ before you let it make YOUR decisions final…
>
>

Even more important than READ is BACKUP :slight_smile:

Alan

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Of course ill back up, have already done that :slight_smile:

When i try to resize the /home partition it tells me that the /home partition is already mounted and cannot be resized.
Please unmount /home partition before resize.

How do i do that?

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You need to log out first in order to unmount /home. When you log out and the KDM screen appear, hit Alt+Ctrl+F2 to switch to VT#2. Then log in as root and type umount /home/ (or umount -a if you don’t need any mounted partitions on your system- highly recomended). Then type /sbin/yast to start YaST in TextGUI-mode and find the partitioner. :slight_smile:

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I hit Alt+Ctrl+F2 and ended up in a shell. Then i tried with both commands umount /home/ and umount -a and the shell told me that device is busy? ( I did log in to the shell as root ).
Also tried /sbin/yast and when finished resize it told me that the /home partition is still mounted. Please unmount /home and try again.

In short. This didnt work very well.

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try to do a lazy unmount if the device is busy


umount -l /home

or you can always find the process that is using the device and kill it using:


fuser -m /dev/sda1
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I ran that command and enter the /sbin/yast after running the command and it said:

Partition /dev/sda3 cannot be resized because the filesystem is inconsistent

/dev/sda3 is where my /home partition is in case of wonder. The one i want to resize and create a new partition from.

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It seems you need to check(defragment) your file system.This is needed, especially when resizing, to avoid data loss from the partition(s). And no matter what FS or system you are using, you should always check it’s consistency before moving/resizing.

First, unmount your FS as root, then /sbin/fsck.your-file-system /dev/your-partition