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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GlCL1-0008BX-Db for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 22:37:35 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAHMYuxH013828; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 22:34:56 GMT Received: from mirus.exceedtech.net (ns0.exceedtech.net [70.151.169.5]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAHMUwSC000795 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 22:30:59 GMT Received: from [65.136.100.131] (0-1pool100-131.nas1.greenwood1.ms.us.da.qwest.net [65.136.100.131]) by mirus.exceedtech.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id kAHMXFqQ027357 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:33:16 -0600 Message-ID: <455E381E.7000206@exceedtech.net> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:30:54 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061110 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 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] Re: Resize / References: <794831050611160955s2cd593f0pb2c1fdb8b6057bcc@mail.gmail.com> <200611162230.03967.wonko@wonkology.org> <794831050611161356y3bf3db8fjfdb5e35d4b567c62@mail.gmail.com> <200611170801.25658.ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com> <3172466.NERXbHXypP@m-id.message-center.info> In-Reply-To: <3172466.NERXbHXypP@m-id.message-center.info> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: fd8f07cf-aa79-4d64-9e1c-6b349c5a4cb4 X-Archives-Hash: a6e068f62f1219f12dbde5d740e34ada Alexander Skwar wrote: > < snip > > The advantage of EVMS over LVM in this case would be, that he > wouldn't have to reformat/repartition and would still be able > to resize the partition/filesystem, wouldn't he? > < snip > > Yes, with reiserfs, this can be done. But also with every other > "normal" filesystem besides ext2. > > Alexander Skwar > Somewhat on topic here. How hard is it to do this with no previous knowledge of how it works? I am constantly running into the same thing the OP is and having to move things around. Currently I have two 80GB drives. Here is my partition scheme at the moment: > root@smoker / # mount > /dev/hda6 on / type reiserfs (rw) > /dev/hda1 on /boot type reiserfs (rw,noatime,notail) > /dev/hda7 on /home type reiserfs (rw) > /dev/hda8 on /usr type reiserfs (rw) > /dev/hda9 on /usr/portage type reiserfs (rw) > /dev/hda10 on /data type reiserfs (rw) > root@smoker / # > root@smoker / # df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda6 9765136 1896004 7869132 20% / > /dev/hda1 146612 45880 100732 32% /boot > /dev/hda7 9765136 1236144 8528992 13% /home > /dev/hda8 9765136 4269660 5495476 44% /usr > /dev/hda9 5859272 3052004 2807268 53% /usr/portage > /dev/hda10 43762436 10667796 33094640 25% /data > root@smoker / # Just looking to get a better grasp on this since it sounds like something I need to try. Thanks Dale :-) :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list