On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:31:19 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <h06ons$dl...@ger.gmane.org>, Hendrik Boom wrote: >>On Wed, 20 May 2009 00:34:24 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
>>> You don't need a rescue CD, and you can even do it while the >>> filesystem is mounted! >> >>So the warnings about unmounting the file system before expanding it in >>the "LVM HOWTO section 11.9. Extending a logical volume" at >>http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/extendlv.html are strictly obsolete? >> >>I'm talking about an etch system with an ext3 file system on llvm on >>raid. > > While I still recommend a backup, I always recommend backups. Multiple backups on different continents, offline in your friends' sock drawers work great. > I've never needed one when expanding > reiserfs or ext2/3.[1!] JFS and XFS are also supposed be to growable > online. Just did that. Worked great. Thanks. > > If shrinking a filesystem, you will need to unmount it; some filesystems > don't like being shrunk at all. Yeah. Taking away data is trickier. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
