[CLUE-Tech] making use of unused disk space

[Mark Horning]

David Anselmi wrote:

> Mark Horning wrote:
> >
> > The one niggle I have seen is that the online (mounted) options have
> > not worked as expected. Apparently they have a little more work to do
> > with that as the device name expected from the LVM commands is
> > different than what the ext2resize command wants but the offline
> > resizing has worked wonderfully.
>
> Ah, that was probably it.  Back in those days I'm not sure I unmounted 
> things before I messed with them.  I guess I still forget 
> sometimes--might be nice if it just said "get clue" instead of messing 
> up the LVM data.  I didn't ever lose anything, just couldn't use the 
> LVM commands after things broke.
>
> I'll take a look again sometime.
>
> Dave


I took a look again and it's the ext2online command from the LVM 
packages that
seems to have a problem. It may be that I'm running devfs that is 
causing the
device name mismatch. There is also a command that comes with e2fsprogs
called resize2fs that will resize filesystems. For both a fsck -f is 
required
prior to resizing. I've only resized upwards to this point but it 
appears to be
a fairly painless process to date (read no data loss) :-)

Mark

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Mark Horning
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