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From: messmate <messmate@free.fr>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] converting ext3 / to LVM
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:55:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050130115544.65cfaef3@eric.placeverte.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1107077143l.22995l.0l@tangerine-64>

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 09:25:43 +0000
"Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)" <jean-luc.coulon@wanadoo.fr> wrote:

>Le 30.01.2005 08:10:52, matthew zeier a �crit�:
>> 
>> Are there any tips on converting an existing ext3 / to LVM? 

Be carefull; as I know converting an EXISTING ext3 to LVM loses all
data. 
Jean-Luc, can  you confirm this ??

>> I found  
>> something that talks about ext2 using LVM1 but I'm not sure if that  
>> applies to my system (RHEL ES v3).
>
>LVM is not a filestem and is not aware of the filesystem you will  
>install on it.
>
>I've installed xfs filesystem over lvm with the same instructions as  
>for ext2.
>
>Only the tolls to resize the ilesystem are different.
>Some filesystems needs to be mounted, other to be unmounted.
>i.e: you can reeeeize an xfs only if t is mounted and you cannot  
>schrink it, only growing is avalable.
>
>> 
>> --
>> matthew zeier
>
>Jean-Luc
>

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-30 10:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-30  7:10 [linux-lvm] converting ext3 / to LVM matthew zeier
2005-01-30  9:25 ` Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)
2005-01-30 10:55   ` messmate [this message]
2005-01-30 11:30     ` Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)
2005-01-30 17:00       ` messmate
2005-01-30 17:13         ` Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)
2005-01-30 17:04       ` messmate
2005-01-30 17:33         ` Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)
2005-01-30 19:36           ` messmate
2005-02-01 12:14             ` Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)

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