[linux-lvm] converting ext3 / to LVM
messmate
messmate at free.fr
Sun Jan 30 10:55:44 UTC 2005
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 09:25:43 +0000
"Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)" <jean-luc.coulon at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>Le 30.01.2005 08:10:52, matthew zeier a écrit :
>>
>> Are there any tips on converting an existing ext3 / to LVM?
Be carefull; as I know converting an EXISTING ext3 to LVM loses all
data.
Jean-Luc, can you confirm this ??
>> I found
>> something that talks about ext2 using LVM1 but I'm not sure if that
>> applies to my system (RHEL ES v3).
>
>LVM is not a filestem and is not aware of the filesystem you will
>install on it.
>
>I've installed xfs filesystem over lvm with the same instructions as
>for ext2.
>
>Only the tolls to resize the ilesystem are different.
>Some filesystems needs to be mounted, other to be unmounted.
>i.e: you can reeeeize an xfs only if t is mounted and you cannot
>schrink it, only growing is avalable.
>
>>
>> --
>> matthew zeier
>
>Jean-Luc
>
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