OT: Thoughts LVM usage.

[Peter Boy]

Am Mo, den 17.11.2003 schrieb WipeOut um 21:58:
> I have been playing around with LVM and it seems that using LVM for / is 
> not such a hot idea.. :)
I use all my disk (besides /boot and swap) as a LVM drive containing /
for several distributions, for /home and some others. I works very nice
and I wouldn't miss it. I can resize the partitions easily as I need.

> I could not work out how to extend the / filesystem after I extended the 
> LV containing / .. 

> I tried to do this by booting CD 1 in rescue 
> mode and the trying to extend the filesystem using resize2fs which 
> simply gave me the error saying it would not extend..
> 
> So the question is has anyone using LVM ever extended their LV that 
> contained the / partition??

I did quite often. I use e2fsadm (for ext2/3 filesystems) to make my
life easier. Your probs must have another reason. Perhaps no space left
on device?

> As a guideline is it NOT recommended to put / into LVM but rather keep / 
> out and simply create LV's for /home, /var and any other data storage 
> locations??

There is some discussion that LVM might add some overhead and degree the
performance a little bit.



Peter