lvm question

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Fri Apr 13 21:47:48 UTC 2007


On Friday 13 April 2007, aragonx at dcsnow.com wrote:
>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> I believe it did.  At least it went through the motions of merging it
>>> into the
>>> existing /dev/hda3.  But, the lower graphic shows hda4 on the left end,
>>> where
>>> common sense says it should be on the right end, at least in my view.
>>>
>>> And, although I initialized it, the total size of that volume is still
>>> shown
>>> as 149GB, when it should now be about 186GB.  Maybe it takes a reboot?
>>> I
>>> dunno.
>>
>> Is the the volume size, or the file system size? I could be wrong,
>> but I though you had to resize the file system after enlarging the
>> logical volume, or before shrinking it.
>
>True.  Resize is the last step after adding the drive to the VG and
>extending the LV.
>
>I'm really not a fan of putting your root or boot partitions in a LV
>unless it is somehow related to a RAID.
>
Well, I haven't done it, yet.  And you are probably right, so I just removed 
that, and will make it plain ext3 before I put it in service.

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