Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade
On Sun, 20 May 2018 15:03:37 +0200 Pascal Hambourg said:
> Le 20/05/2018 à 14:33, songbird a écrit :
>>
>> in my last system i had many different partitions like that but
>> with the new system i decided that was wasting too much space and
>
> Then LVM is your friend. You can create as many logical volumes as you
> like with minimal sizes and easily extend them when needed. This way you
> don't waste space in overprovisioning.
LVM greatly simplifies the partitioning part of the chore. But you still need
to do the content management part[*] before shrinking / after enlarging an LV,
don't you?
[*] backup, umount/swapoff, resize2fs/mkswap, mount/swapon, (unlikely but
possibly: restore)
Regards
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Abdullah Ramazanoğlu
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