From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FCtGO-0005Zd-GT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 06:50:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1P6n4pq017410; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 06:49:04 GMT Received: from hetzner.email-server.info (new.email-server.info [213.133.109.44]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1P6fhMd007402 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 06:41:43 GMT Received: from hd.bei.digitalprojects.com (e182053087.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.182.53.87]) by hetzner.email-server.info (Postfix) with ESMTP id 070569646 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 07:41:44 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (blatt.bei.digitalprojects.com [192.168.1.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hd.bei.digitalprojects.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7548FB8C0A4 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 07:41:41 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <43FFFC87.8080402@mid.email-server.info> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 07:43:19 +0100 From: Alexander Skwar User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060211) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question References: <43FEA1CF.5080404@mid.email-server.info> <200602242135.00930.krakrjak@volumehost.net> In-Reply-To: <200602242135.00930.krakrjak@volumehost.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d9062d90-ae2c-4611-a19d-1f973a712598 X-Archives-Hash: 82d116bb4d476138a2d99e3ca277b255 Zac Slade wrote: > On Friday 24 February 2006 00:03, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> John Jolet wrote: >> > Remember, the fs cannot be mounted when you extend it. >> >> That's wrong. Every FS can be extended online, even ext{2,3} >> with certain patches IIRC. > WRONG!!! (or partially anyway) Here's the rundown: > reiser3, resizable online in two ways > 1)resize_reiserfs /path/to/dev > 2)mount -o remount,resize /path/to/dev > XFS, MUST be mounted to resize use xfs_grow /mount/point > JFS, resizable online with a mount -o remount,resize /path/to/dev > ext2/3, resizable offline reliably. Online resize is a *very* experimental > experiment. Have good backups. Okay, so the following fs are online resizable, according to you: - reiser3 - xfs - jfs - ext2, ext3 That's pretty much "every FS", isn't it? > > For a good reference if one is ever needed to give to a friend, relative or > foe try http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/extendlv.html Yep. LVM Howto is a very good resource. Alexander Skwar -- An artist should be fit for the best society and keep out of it. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list