From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lembark@wrkhors.com Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] extending a logical volume Message-Id: <25790000.1011646431@duke.wrkhors.com> In-Reply-To: <20020121201314.40293.qmail@web20303.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020121201314.40293.qmail@web20303.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Mon Jan 21 14:56:02 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com -- Brad Langhorst on 01/21/02 12:13:14 -0800 > > --- lembark@wrkhors.com wrote: >> >> >> -- Pierrick PONS on 01/21/02 19:09:31 >> +0100 >> >> > I've read the extending logical volume section and >> I can't believe this. >> > According to the doc, it would be impossible to >> extend a logical volume > > um - i think i just did this... > > lvextend -L +10G /dev/vg1/data > followed by > resize-reiserfs > > no corruption (at least not that I've noticed) > > maybe i'm misunderstanding... There has been a bit if mail on the reiser list about corruption from expanding in-use file systems. Frankly, for the number of [milli?]seconds it takes to do the expansion offline it seems easier to do it unmounted. I'm also not sure that ext3 supports online extension (thought the original post was about ext3), and ext2 or msdos file systems certianly don't. You also don't know if anyone is using the volume for a networked file system, which may screw things up if the caching is too aggressive. -- Steven Lembark 2930 W. Palmer Workhorse Computing Chicago, IL 60647 +1 800 762 1582