[clue-tech] Partition madness

[Collins Richey]

On 7/25/05, 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.
> 

Does resize2fs work with LVM2? It was my understanding that it didn't work yet? 

-- 
Collins Richey
      Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write 
      the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not 
      smart enough to debug it.
             -Brian Kernighan
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