* LVM and root. @ 2009-01-18 20:18 Prateek Donni 2009-01-20 8:57 ` Cristi Magherusan 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Prateek Donni @ 2009-01-18 20:18 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-kernel Changing size of root partition in LVM . Is it possible .. ? ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: LVM and root. 2009-01-18 20:18 LVM and root Prateek Donni @ 2009-01-20 8:57 ` Cristi Magherusan 2009-01-20 19:42 ` Bryan Donlan 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Cristi Magherusan @ 2009-01-20 8:57 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Prateek Donni; +Cc: linux-kernel On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 01:48 +0530, Prateek Donni wrote: > Changing size of root partition in LVM . Is it possible .. ? The LVM volume could be resized, but for resizing the partition you may need to use a live CD, since IIRC you cannot resize a mounted filesystem. -- Ing. Cristi Măgherușan, System/Network Engineer Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania http://cc.utcluj.ro +40264 401247 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: LVM and root. 2009-01-20 8:57 ` Cristi Magherusan @ 2009-01-20 19:42 ` Bryan Donlan 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Bryan Donlan @ 2009-01-20 19:42 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Cristi Magherusan; +Cc: Prateek Donni, linux-kernel On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Cristi Magherusan <Cristi.Magherusan@net.utcluj.ro> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 01:48 +0530, Prateek Donni wrote: >> Changing size of root partition in LVM . Is it possible .. ? > The LVM volume could be resized, but for resizing the partition you may > need to use a live CD, since IIRC you cannot resize a mounted > filesystem. Many filesystems actually do support online resize - ext3, reiserfs, and xfs I know support it, as well as others, probably. Of course, running fsck -> resize -> fsck from a livecd is probably the /safest/ route... ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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