[linux-lvm] extending a logical volume

[James Hawtin]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Harri Haataja wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 12:13:14PM -0800, Brad Langhorst wrote:
> > --- lembark at wrkhors.com wrote:
> > > -- Pierrick PONS <ppons at cvf.fr> on 01/21/02 19:09:31
> > > +0100
> > > 
> > > > I've read the extending logical volume section and
> > > I can't believe this.
> > > > According to the doc, it would be impossible to
> > > extend a logical volume 
> > 
> > um - i think i just did this...
> > 
> > lvextend -L +10G /dev/vg1/data 
> > followed by 
> > resize-reiserfs
> > 
> > no corruption (at least not that I've noticed)
> 
> I do this all the time with XFS, Reiser and even ext3.
> At least reiser also shrinks, I think.
> 

I had a resize reiserfs go really bad on 2.4.9 + patches, noticed it
after a couple of days. Personally i don't trust it, but thats just
probably me, I aways try to rebuild filesystems. 

James