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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> Why do you make such a big deal of not using LVM? It achieves everything |
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> you want to, and more, without the compromises. |
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There's one thing that has prevented me from ever using LVM: the need to |
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have an initrd (or initramfs). From what I remember, this has always |
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required manually copying some utilities like the LVM tools to the |
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initrd (or writing a script that does it), and remembering to do it |
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every time I update one of the tools, and not to forget copying all |
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required libraries as well, and so on. |
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OTOH, I have stopped looking at solutions that need an initrd quite some |
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time ago, so things might be easier nowadays. How do you manage your |
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initrd? Do you even need one? |
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> And what happens with 500GB is no longer enough and you want to add more |
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> space. How do you resize your "partitions" to use space on the second |
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> disk? |
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Even though I have used resize2fs in the past, I have always thought |
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that this tool was kind of a hack. Doesn't the resizing operation carry |
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some risk? And if it goes wrong (e.g. a power outage), do you loose the |
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complete content of the partition? |
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And from what I remember, you can't resize a mounted ext3 partition, so |
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you have to boot to a rescue CD, hope that all your LVM tools are there |
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(they normally are, but what version?) and perform the resize operation |
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there. |
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But I'd love to be proven wrong on all the points above! This would |
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certainly motivate me to look into LVM seriously this time. It really |
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seems to be the right solution to the various problems I have seen with |
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static partitions. |
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-- Remy |
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