From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (ext-mx10.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.110.14]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o3O1dfPP015954 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:39:41 -0400 Received: from eastrmmtao102.cox.net (eastrmmtao102.cox.net [68.230.240.8]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o3O1dTwf004765 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:39:30 -0400 Received: from eastrmimpo01.cox.net ([68.1.16.119]) by eastrmmtao102.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.00.01.00 201-2244-105-20090324) with ESMTP id <20100424013930.SSAU7060.eastrmmtao102.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:39:30 -0400 Message-ID: <4BD24BD0.3080501@cox.net> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:39:28 -0500 From: Ron Johnson MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4BC58DF3.608@redhat.com> <4BC5D58F.2030809@cfl.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <4BC5D58F.2030809@cfl.rr.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Problems resizing physical volume Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@redhat.com On 04/14/2010 09:47 AM, Phillip Susi wrote: [snip] > > This doesn't directly address your issue, but I'd point out that if > /boot were itself an lv instead of a normal partition, resizing it would > be easy ;) > > Personally I just leave /boot on the root lv. > OTOH, you can never go wrong following the K.I.S.S. principle, especially when disks are so large that 30GB is less than 5% of capacity. We use LVs for data directories only. -- Dissent is patriotic, remember?