From: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com>
To: Cristi Magherusan <Cristi.Magherusan@net.utcluj.ro>
Cc: Prateek Donni <prateek.donni@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: LVM and root.
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:42:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e8340490901201142l3787fbaep71351beb7a04e1cf@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1232441867.26012.20.camel@hyperion>
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Cristi Magherusan
<Cristi.Magherusan@net.utcluj.ro> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 01:48 +0530, Prateek Donni wrote:
>> Changing size of root partition in LVM . Is it possible .. ?
> The LVM volume could be resized, but for resizing the partition you may
> need to use a live CD, since IIRC you cannot resize a mounted
> filesystem.
Many filesystems actually do support online resize - ext3, reiserfs,
and xfs I know support it, as well as others, probably. Of course,
running fsck -> resize -> fsck from a livecd is probably the /safest/
route...
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-20 19:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-18 20:18 Prateek Donni
2009-01-20 8:57 ` Cristi Magherusan
2009-01-20 19:42 ` Bryan Donlan [this message]
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