Hi Rob, >> I need to deploy a Debian virtual machine which will host an apache >> website with a pictures database. That database will grow of course. ;-) My >> idea is to have a VM with 2 disks. [...] >> Supposedly I can now easily grow /var/www when I need more space. Right? >> Just to make sure I have things right...... >> When I need more than the 1TB data I can extend the disk in my VMware >> hypervisor to 1,5TB. Have Debian do a rescan of the disk (for instance >> via a reboot of the machine) After that I do a pvcreate on the new free >> diskspace, then add it to the vgroup that holds the data and then add that >> data to the logical volume holding /var/www Right? >> Of am I missing something? Is there a better / easier way? >> Would adding another 1TB disk to the VM and adding that to the vgroup be a >> better scenario? That imitates the "physical word scenario" where people add >> an extra physical disk to a machine. >> Plenty of examples for that on the net.
> I'm not sure which would be better, adding a new disk or extending the > existing disk. But I figured I'd recommend the use of system-config-lvm -- it makes lvm operations pretty easy. Looking at the info of that package it says: System-config-lvm provides a graphical interface to the LVM tools (and related utilities, including fsck and resize2fs) which is good for non-emergency storage administration. It enables you to manage your logical volume and filesystem configuration with a few mouse clicks, and it prevents potentially- disasterous command-line mistakes such as reducing a logical volume size before reducing the filesystem contained within that volume. It talks about a "graphical interface" and "a few mouse clicks". That sounds like I need a graphical desktop for this package. If so.... I cannot use it. I have no graphical stuff on my servers. A ncurses interface is no problem but it seems this tool is not that. Bonno Bloksma -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/89d1798a7351d040b4e74e0a043c69d77b131...@hglexch-01.tio.nl
