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John Jolet wrote: |
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> On Feb 24, 2006, at 9:35 PM, Zac Slade wrote: |
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>> On Friday 24 February 2006 00:03, Alexander Skwar wrote: |
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>>> John Jolet wrote: |
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>>>> Remember, the fs cannot be mounted when you extend it. |
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>>> That's wrong. Every FS can be extended online, even ext{2,3} |
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>>> with certain patches IIRC. |
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>> WRONG!!! (or partially anyway) Here's the rundown: |
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>> reiser3, resizable online in two ways |
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>> 1)resize_reiserfs /path/to/dev |
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>> 2)mount -o remount,resize /path/to/dev |
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>> XFS, MUST be mounted to resize use xfs_grow /mount/point |
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>> JFS, resizable online with a mount -o remount,resize /path/to/dev |
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>> ext2/3, resizable offline reliably. Online resize is a *very* |
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>> experimental |
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>> experiment. Have good backups. |
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>> For a good reference if one is ever needed to give to a friend, |
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>> relative or |
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>> foe try http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/extendlv.html |
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> okay, i'll rephrase.... being an old aix hand... with the (possible) |
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> exeption of reiser.... I, personally, would not trust any filesystem |
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> to resize without being unmounted. |
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Why not? No need to unmount. resize_reiserfs and xfs are tested quite |
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much. |
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> but then, compared to the aix |
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> lvm, which can be resized with oracle accessing at full speed, linux |
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> lvms are just barely getting to what I'd call "production ready". |
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Why's that? |
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Alexander Skwar |
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