Adding a new hard drive to LVM

[Markku Kolkka]

Derek Scollon kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika tiistai, 7. 
kesäkuuta 2005 21:35):
> Trying
> step 6 warns me that running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem
> can cause severe damage, at which point I chicken out. Is it
> safe to skip to step 7 and run resize2fs without unmounting
> the filesystem first

It's "safe" because resize2fs notices that the filesystem is 
mounted and refuses to do anything :-)

> or should I be doing something different? 

You must boot the system from a rescue CD so that you can work 
without mounting your normal root filesystem.

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 Markku Kolkka
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