On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:39:08 +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...

You can extend partitions on the fly with LVM2, and have always been able
to, provided you have free space in its volume group. Was it the partition
you had trouble resizing or the filesystem? That's a separate step and is
dependent on the tools available for the particular filesystem on use. It
is certainly possible to extend a mounted ext3 filesystem now, but that
may not have always been the case.


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Neil Bothwick

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