Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

[csanyipal@gmail.com]

Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> writes:

> csanyipal@gmail.com a écrit :
>> 
>> Finally, I solved the problem by doing the followings:
>> # lvresize --size 455.5G /dev/mapper/bubba-storage
>> # e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/bubba-storage
>
> Glad you were lucky.
>
>> Now, I can to use parted to resize my partitions.
>> What is my goal?
>> 
>> Filesystem                 Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/root                  9.2G  8.0G  815M  91% /
>> devtmpfs                   125M     0  125M   0% /dev
>> tmpfs                      125M  4.0K  125M   1% /dev/shm
>> tmpfs                      125M  5.6M  120M   5% /run
>> tmpfs                      5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
>> tmpfs                      125M     0  125M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
>> /dev/mapper/bubba-storage  449G  8.2G  418G   2% /home
>> tmpfs                       25M     0   25M   0% /run/user/1001
>> 
>> # fdisk -l
>> 
>> Device     Boot     Start       End   Sectors   Size Id Type
>> /dev/sda1              63  19551104  19551042   9.3G 83 Linux
>> /dev/sda2        19551105 974647484 955096380 455.4G 8e Linux LVM
>> /dev/sda3       974647485 976768064   2120580     1G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
>> 
>> # lvs
>>   LV      VG    Attr       LSize   Pool Origin Data%  Meta%  Move Log
>>   Cpy%Sync Convert
>>     storage bubba -wi-ao---- 455.40g
>> 
>> # pvs
>>   PV         VG    Fmt  Attr PSize   PFree
>>     /dev/sda2  bubba lvm2 a--  455.42g 20.00m
>
> I'm curious : what's the use of LVM if you have only one LV taking all
> the space in the VG, and plain partitions outside the VG ?

I bought the headless powerpc server here:
http://www.excitostore.com/

I get the hardware preinstalled with Debian Sarge. The developers knows
why did the partition so as is.

-- 
Regards from Pal