On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 10:04:40PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 07:42:57AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 08:23:17PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > > This is a great reason to be using LVM with separate LVs. Need to > > > convert? Create a new LV, make the new filesystem, tar the data over to > > > it. When everything is working, delete the old LV. If you need extra > > > space during the transition, borrow a drive and add it to the VG. > > > > What's the benefit of LVM when I add a separate drive? > > you can add the drive to the VG and then create more LV's to shuffle > filesystems around to make the conversion possible. If I had a spare drive I would: 1. copy all data from the "problem" partition 2. do the conversion (a reformat is no problem as everything is backed up 3. copy all data back Can you do it faster or easier with LVM? I'm just asking, never used LVM. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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