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Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:19:56 +0200
From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!
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On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:38:13 -0600
Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> Alex Schuster wrote:
> > Dale writes:
> >
> >> I have a question on this. I have a drive that I use for movies
> >> and such. There is nothing OS related on that drive. Would it be
> >> safe to set this to say 1% or even 0?
> >
> > I'd say 1% is okay. For 0% I'm not sure, I avoid that, but maybe
> > there will be no noticeable difference at all.
> >
> >> Also, it is already set up with LVM and
> >> ext4. Can I change it even while there is data on there?
> >
> > Sure! Cool, isn't it. Just call lvresize -L
> > +1G /dev/mapper/whatever or something, and then
> > resize2fs /dev/mapper/whatever.
>
>
> I was talking about the command to change the superuser reserves. I
> know how to make LVM bigger but wanted to make sure this can be run
> even when there is data on there. Basically, can I run:
>
> tune2fs -m 1 /dev/data/data1
>
> Which is where the ext4 file system is on the LVM. After I run that
> then I can expand LVM from there, I hope it works that easy.
They don't interfere with each other.
LVM and the size of the filesystem is one thing. Reserved space is
something else, completely unrelated.
>
>
> > Wonko
> >
> >
>
> Dale
>
> :-) :-)
>
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Alan McKinnnon
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