On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:13:48AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:14:54PM +0000, Richard Lyons wrote: [..] > > > > As I said, I am at home with fdisk and parted. And can boot from > > knoppix and copy a whole partition off when I need to, whereas knoppix > > doesn't seem to know about the lvm partitions. Probably my lack of > > knowledge, though: I am sure knoppix can mount the LVM in capable hands. > > I expect I am just showing my age. > > I've never bothered to figure out how to get a LiveCD to mount my LVM > (some of which is sitting on top of raid1). The way it works is that > the kernel should boot. If it doesn't, there's the installer CD in > rescue mode. > > Some filesystem types allow shrinking, others don't. If you need to > shrink one and the filesystem doesn't allow it, you have to create a new > LV, put a new filesystem on it, move the data, and remove the old LV. > > The best HOWTO is the LVM howto in the doc-linux package (from > tldp.org). The trick is to be aware of the layers and to resize things > at the right layer. Yes the concept is complicated, but the actual > useage is rather magical. > > Whatever floats your boat.
It really does seem that I shall have to find time to get round LVM some day. Thanks for your input, Doug. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
