On Friday 13 April 2007, aragonx@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> 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. > Well, I haven't done it, yet. And you are probably right, so I just removed that, and will make it plain ext3 before I put it in service. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Simulations are like miniskirts, they show a lot and hide the essentials. -- Hubert Kirrman
