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From: Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:03:34
Message-Id: 20111216090210.GA3266@ca.inter.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes by Allan Gottlieb
1 111215 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
2 > I need to add space to /var -- thank you, libreoffice -- ,
3 > which is on lvm. Since my one volume group vg is getting low,
4 > I thought this would be a good time to extend it as well ...
5 > phy vol: pvcreate /dev/sda8
6 > ...
7
8 I have long had my own extra var-type dir, which i call '/z'
9 (it started out as "all the otherwise unassigned space on the disk").
10 Currently, it has 20 GB , of which 8 GB are used,
11 all temporary stuff, none of it for anything of lasting value.
12 That's where I do all my heavy-lifting, eg ISOs, testing packed archives
13 & esp /z/tmp , which is my Portage tempdir.
14
15 In your set-up, you might consider mounting /dev/sda8 as a similar big dir.
16 That would avoid all the problems of changing existing dir sizes
17 & also any need to alter LVM.
18
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