>>> On 2/20/2012 at 08:34 AM, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: 
> If the filesystem runs out of space,
> and you used the proper type of filesystem (there are many), you simply
> expand the size of the logical volume into unused space in the group.
> You then resize the filesystem. If you used ext4 or btrfs, I think you
> can do this while it is in use. If you used ext3, I think you need to
> unmount it (take it "offline") to resize it.

To shrink an ext3 file system it has to be offline.  To expand it, that 
limitation was removed some time ago.


Mark Post

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