Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

[Joost Roeleveld]

On Saturday 09 April 2011 08:04:19 Dale wrote:
> Joost Roeleveld wrote:
> > Nice :)
> >
> > Btw, instead of specifying "final" size after resizing, you can actually
> > tell it to "add" 20GB by doing:
> > lvrextend -L+20G /dev/sdb-vg/test
> >
> > --
> > Joost
>
> So that was what the howto meant.  If I know the total I need then I can
> specify it but if I know the amount of extra space I need, I can just do
> +XX and it adds it.  That's neat.  Some coder had his/her thinking hat
> on that day.

For completeness, I just want to add that if there is not sufficient space 
available in the VG. The command will fail with a message telling you there is 
not enough room :)

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Joost