Am Mo, den 17.11.2003 schrieb WipeOut um 21:58: > I have been playing around with LVM and it seems that using LVM for / is > not such a hot idea.. :) I use all my disk (besides /boot and swap) as a LVM drive containing / for several distributions, for /home and some others. I works very nice and I wouldn't miss it. I can resize the partitions easily as I need. > I could not work out how to extend the / filesystem after I extended the > LV containing / .. > I tried to do this by booting CD 1 in rescue > mode and the trying to extend the filesystem using resize2fs which > simply gave me the error saying it would not extend.. > > So the question is has anyone using LVM ever extended their LV that > contained the / partition?? I did quite often. I use e2fsadm (for ext2/3 filesystems) to make my life easier. Your probs must have another reason. Perhaps no space left on device? > As a guideline is it NOT recommended to put / into LVM but rather keep / > out and simply create LV's for /home, /var and any other data storage > locations?? There is some discussion that LVM might add some overhead and degree the performance a little bit. Peter
