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 1RRBsu-0006Zr-R8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9716C21C04F; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB0EC21C04F for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:59:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 93C3D80411 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:59:40 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:59:34 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line? Message-ID: <20111117235934.30a2d6eb@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <20111117172550.2a04a59f@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <20111117194754.6835abf6@digimed.co.uk> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10cvs85 (GTK+ 2.24.8; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/QU5erEyc.4ygzXVt8sEt0G+"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 296a4588-3e4f-4738-a55f-9ad8ed2962f7 X-Archives-Hash: baf45e486c6d965056a829ede130bb07 --Sig_/QU5erEyc.4ygzXVt8sEt0G+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:34:14 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > OK, so returning to your original response, you suggest increasing the > size of each physical partition and then resizing each of the physical > partitions independently? (/dev/sdwhatever instead of /dev/md6 > directly?) >=20 > Is there a reason or personal experience you have to not to resize the > RAID-5 directly? Do you have separately partitioned drives with those partitions arranged into single-partition arrays, or do you have one RAID device that is then partitioned? If the latter, you should certainly work with the md device. I prefer to avoid all this confusion by creating a large, single partition array that I use an an LVM physical volume. --=20 Neil Bothwick "You know how dumb the average person is? Well, statistically, half of them are even dumber than that" - Lewton, P.I. --Sig_/QU5erEyc.4ygzXVt8sEt0G+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk7Fn+sACgkQum4al0N1GQMVXwCeLLN5bq3Q3XtK4XRfWQuHg6XK zBQAoLYoTD+dpOB9AyUVwYCkFnIdnzE5 =Mj9i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/QU5erEyc.4ygzXVt8sEt0G+--