lvm question

[aragonx at dcsnow.com]

> Gene Heskett wrote:
>> I believe it did.  At least it went through the motions of merging it
>> into the
>> existing /dev/hda3.  But, the lower graphic shows hda4 on the left end,
>> where
>> common sense says it should be on the right end, at least in my view.
>>
>> And, although I initialized it, the total size of that volume is still
>> shown
>> as 149GB, when it should now be about 186GB.  Maybe it takes a reboot?
>> I
>> dunno.
>>
> Is the the volume size, or the file system size? I could be wrong,
> but I though you had to resize the file system after enlarging the
> logical volume, or before shrinking it.

True.  Resize is the last step after adding the drive to the VG and
extending the LV.

I'm really not a fan of putting your root or boot partitions in a LV
unless it is somehow related to a RAID.



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