Re: [gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line?

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> 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?)
>>
>> 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.

Separately partitioned drives arranged into RAID arrays.

I don't do LVM. Every time I look at the instructions for setting it
up I fall asleep. Also, I have varying needs in terms of space, speed
& redundancy, so I'm not clear that a single RAID of any type with LVM
on top would have met my needs.

- Mark