Re: LVM on notebook
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 01:04 pm, Maximilian Wilhelm wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 8. Juni hub Ritesh Raj Sarraf folgendes in die Tasten:
> > > I have it running for two years now and enjoyed it when I wanted to
> > > merge two volumes to maximize "real" usage space for user data.
> > > I just hade to make a copy of the data, delete one LV, extended the
> > > other and copied back. done.
> >
> > Doesn't make much sense then. This "copy and paste" can be achieved with
> > normal partitioning also.
>
> I did only make a backup copy of both and then copied *one* of the
> backups on the Volume I extended.
> This is not possible with partitions.
>
> With normal partitions you have to backup both, repartitions, and
> restore both.
>
> > Has anyone done LVM resizing on the fly which is supported in LVM2 ?
>
> ciao
> Max
> --
> Follow the white penguin.
I've extended volumes a couple of times always with ext3 fs. Works without
problems following the directions in the howto.
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