From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6EB61381F3 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 06:17:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D390121C004; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 06:17:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f171.google.com (mail-we0-f171.google.com [74.125.82.171]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9B62BE0D9D for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 06:17:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f171.google.com with SMTP id p57so1228095wes.30 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2013 23:17:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=+qe10vYWFp/mHXCgeV+dmUViSrQtpUggnazb4eyomUs=; b=Vz3Bunw6bYLH0u6AkjPwMOtG+odkaHnHbxBiB5RiDFXf1RvA2/zEkdVtXHeLPceOFl siNyUsEBfdRXJaBTnEKXWI+8o+1w8sqs6YH5Ckj2tkb7/k+rJk9I0hHJa7MC6+NMMHAj Z4UcI4uqh7bCi/Y5pM0T0FFGEdg3a78gatxSyQkDEvS6MQgRF4N7WzwHn8NlhXvvpe6/ cNrqH2l6JrOrh7FsqmTMM95UNfde/2b5vs+GG76l1AQCyTe98SzrW6H0xZL/+OHZ1zxZ mXJv0lWSWQmtM5PfYInWNBFbElCpvEtxKblTA4TGlY8Ux0q2iZChV8Whj/rFROJarvo/ A73w== X-Received: by 10.180.37.164 with SMTP id z4mr1024902wij.30.1377843442303; Thu, 29 Aug 2013 23:17:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.1.20.204] (dustpuppy.is.co.za. [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id b13sm1571125wic.9.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 29 Aug 2013 23:17:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <52203819.7080005@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 08:13:45 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130809 Thunderbird/17.0.8 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] where did lvm installation guide go? References: <87r4dcbisz.fsf@nyu.edu> <3d90a1d3-1a1e-4a4c-82b9-e0d34237c103@email.android.com> In-Reply-To: <3d90a1d3-1a1e-4a4c-82b9-e0d34237c103@email.android.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 3da4cf9e-b3cb-4e23-a159-c86b40d6424b X-Archives-Hash: 85fd07f5fc25f4945e29fb1add1dcba7 On 30/08/2013 07:21, J. Roeleveld wrote: > Canek, > > LVs can be resized while the system is running. It also depends on the > actual filesystem, but extending can be done online with all filesystems > I am aware of. > Shrinking is not possible with all. no fs can be reduced whilst mounted, most especially the inode based ones This makes reducing / somewhat tricky as requires system downtime. The usual approach sysadmins use is to estimate size conservatively and make them larger as needed (effectively avoiding reducing any as much as possible). -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com