From: Patrick Boutilier <boutilpj@ednet.ns.ca>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] 2 LVM questions
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 11:38:24 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B584260.6060204@ednet.ns.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200107201334.QAA26563@easymail.hol.gr
What I would do is:
1. Create a Volume group using the 2 unused hard disks.
2. Create a file system on the new Logical volume
3. Copy your /var directory to the new filesystem mounted as /var2
(shutdown Mysql first so the data is clean).
4. Move /var to /var3 (mv /var /var3)
5. Mount new file system as /var
When you are satisfied that everything is working on LVM fine you can
then delete the partition that /var3 is on (old /var) and use it to
extend your logical volume.
moka@hol.gr wrote:
>Hi there, new to LVM, so I would appreciate if you can
>point me to answers to these questions:
>
>1) I have a system with 3 hard disks, and only one of
>them is presently used. This contains boot, root and
>swap plus a logical partition(not LVM) containing
>/var and /home.
>
>I have big database tables, so I would like
> to create one volume group consisting of the 2
> unused disks plus the /var. Is this possible
> without losing what is in /var?
>2) The reason I need a lot of space is that mysql
> which I am using stores the database tables in /var.
> Can I somehow "name" the volume group /var
> so that mysql will not be confused?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>S.Alexiou
>
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>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-20 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-20 13:34 [linux-lvm] 2 LVM questions moka
2001-07-20 14:20 ` lembark
2001-07-20 14:28 ` Eric M. Hopper
2001-07-20 14:38 ` Patrick Boutilier [this message]
2001-07-20 15:34 ` Joe Thornber
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