Fedora Cookbook: Resizing a logical volume

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 28 Dec 2007, Luciano Rocha wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 05:19:27AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >   yes, yes, it's not what you'd call intellectually challenging, but
> > ...
> >
> > http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Resize_a_logical_volume
>
> 2 points:
>
> 1. reducing a volume is more interesting, and more error-prone, so I
> think it should be well defined there (I and others have sent the steps
> to this list already);
>
> 2. There is no need to do an off-line resize. Ext3 (and xfs) suppors
> on-line resizing, so the steps are:
>   * lvextend -L +4G /dev/f8/op
>   * resize2fs /dev/f8/opt

well, then, that makes things pretty trivial, doesn't it?  *sigh*.

rday

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