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From: Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@online.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] extending /usr partition...
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:32:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200903221033.00497.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49C5344C.501@gmail.com>

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Am Samstag, 21. März 2009 19:39:08 schrieb Jarry:

> 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...

The filesystem has to support resizing. A few years ago ext3 only supported 
offline resize. That has changed meanwhile.

Bye...

	Dirk

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-22  9:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-21 18:05 [gentoo-user] extending /usr partition Jarry
2009-03-21 18:12 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-03-21 18:20   ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-03-21 18:39   ` Jarry
2009-03-21 18:53     ` Alan McKinnon
2009-03-21 19:37     ` Daniel Troeder
2009-03-21 20:57     ` Neil Bothwick
2009-03-21 21:13       ` BRM
2009-03-21 23:39         ` Neil Bothwick
2009-03-22  2:46         ` Albert Hopkins
2009-03-22  6:36           ` [gentoo-user] " Francesco Talamona
2009-03-22  7:16             ` Philip Webb
2009-03-22  8:44             ` Alan McKinnon
2009-03-22 11:12             ` Albert Hopkins
2009-03-22 12:53               ` Francesco Talamona
2009-03-22 15:06                 ` Albert Hopkins
2009-03-22  8:42         ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2009-03-23 12:44           ` BRM
2009-03-22  9:32     ` Dirk Heinrichs [this message]
2009-03-22 10:59       ` Jarry
2009-03-22 11:45         ` Alan McKinnon
2009-03-22 10:37     ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-03-22  6:39   ` [gentoo-user] " Francesco Talamona
2009-03-22  8:32     ` Alan McKinnon
2009-03-21 18:16 ` [gentoo-user] " Dirk Heinrichs

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