[clue-tech] Partition madness

[mike havlicek]

--- Keith Hellman <khellman at mcprogramming.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 07:44:43PM -0600, Collins
> Richey wrote:
> > On 7/25/05, Angelo Bertolli <angelo at freeshell.org>
> wrote:
> > > I'm starting to think that I'm a prime candidate
> for LVM.  Although it
> > > wouldn't help with the FAT/NTFS situation, it
> might help me resize my
> > > Linux partitions.
> > 
> > I was going to mention that. We use LVM on all our
> RH9 systems, and it
> > works great, but there is a caveat. RedHat in
> their infinite wisdom
> > went with LVM2 for the FC3/RHEL4 (and of course
> CentOS4) series
> > w=i=t=h-o=u=t bothering to provide a utility to
> shrink an ext3 logical
> > volume !!!
> 
> Yes, LVM makes life ALOT easier.  I use resize2fs to
> both shrink and
> expand my ext3 logical volumes or perhaps I
> misundersood the last
> statement from Collins.
> 
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Shrinking can be dangerous.

Are you using the journalling ex13? Does resize2fs
have an option to recover the journal?

-Mike


		
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