[clue-tech] Partition madness

[Angelo Bertolli]

Collins Richey wrote:

>On 7/25/05, Keith Hellman <khellman at mcprogramming.com> wrote:
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>>On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 07:44:43PM -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
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>>>On 7/25/05, Angelo Bertolli <angelo at freeshell.org> wrote:
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>>>>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.
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>>>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 !!!
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>>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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>Does resize2fs work with LVM2? It was my understanding that it didn't work yet? 
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I've seen/tried the GUI interface for LVM on CentOS... and if it DOES
work, they should really add it ;)
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