From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ll70e-0001i4-1B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:37:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 52502E03BD; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:37:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx01.admin-box.com (mx01.admin-box.com [78.47.249.108]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0E2DE03BD for ; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:37:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx01.admin-box.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E17F82025E7F for ; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:37:28 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mx01.admin-box.com Received: from mx01.admin-box.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mx01.admin-box.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id tev2TJXbiDfZ for ; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:37:26 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.0.137] (e178016158.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.178.16.158]) (Authenticated sender: daniel@troeder.de) by mx01.admin-box.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ED1B2023B8A for ; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:37:26 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] extending /usr partition... From: Daniel Troeder To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <49C5344C.501@gmail.com> References: <49C52C76.4030609@gmail.com> <200903212012.57099.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <49C5344C.501@gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-Fn9K6K1W9gG2vFQP9oIS" Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:37:25 +0100 Message-Id: <1237664245.7183.21.camel@mayo.local> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.5 X-Archives-Salt: f642b19c-a9e8-4629-993a-4d0fc893d691 X-Archives-Hash: 0ab224164768f4ef9604c1d975b37ddb --=-Fn9K6K1W9gG2vFQP9oIS Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 19:39 +0100, Jarry wrote: > I remember having lvm2 a few years ago, and despite of that I could not > extend any partition, which was being used. What is then lvm2 good for, > if I can not extend partitions on-the-fly? I can not unmount /usr before > extending... This is filesystem (and OS) dependent. I use XFS for all my partitions, because one of the nice thing about it is, that it can grow filesystems when they are mounted. I think this is possible with ext3 too, but I did not test it. Even under heavy load it is a matter of seconds to grow a XFS FS in a LVM. > And one more counter-argument: with traditional partitions I can select > where a certain partition is (physically). Those partitions accessed > frequently I put to the beginning of the disk with higher transfer-rate. > In my case, it makes quite difference: In my experience more (human and up-) time is lost in backup-reboot-repartition-format-restore-reboot than in some iowait. Bye, Daniel --=20 PGP key @ http://pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de/pks/lookup?search=3D0xBB9D4887&op=3Dget # gpg --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net 0xBB9D4887 --=-Fn9K6K1W9gG2vFQP9oIS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAknFQfUACgkQg3+4tbudSIeCJQCePVvVtvOxV6JR4pP8K81HfGea gMkAoIfvDDJZg2eGoM3x+VnWnUIzIWuW =c6Wj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Fn9K6K1W9gG2vFQP9oIS--