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On 30/08/2013 07:21, J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> Canek, |
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> LVs can be resized while the system is running. It also depends on the |
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> actual filesystem, but extending can be done online with all filesystems |
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> I am aware of. |
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> Shrinking is not possible with all. |
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no fs can be reduced whilst mounted, most especially the inode based ones |
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This makes reducing / somewhat tricky as requires system downtime. |
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The usual approach sysadmins use is to estimate size conservatively and |
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make them larger as needed (effectively avoiding reducing any as much as |
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possible). |
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Alan McKinnon |
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