Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and LABELS in fstab

[James Wall]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:37:59 -0600, Dale wrote:
>>
>>>> Also, this will only work if the VG has sufficient unused space (eg.
>>>> not used by LVs) on the other disk(s) to accomodate the data moved.
>>>
>>> Thanks.  Clear as mud now.   lol  I'm getting there.  Is there a tool
>>> to see if there is enough room to do this before trying it?
>>
>> pvs, vgs and lvs are your friends here. As long as the free space
>> reported by vgs is more than pvs reports as the size of the partition you
>> want to remove, you will be fine.
>>
>> Although pvmove will also let you know if there isn't enough space for
>> what you want.
>>
>>
>
> I found something that is a bit annoying here.  I have gkrellm running on my
> desktop to sort of keep a eye on things.  This works fine for the little
> part down at the bottom with how much is used and how much is free.  Thing
> is, the part that shows activity doesn't have anything for LVM.  I have the
> listing for the individual drives, sdb and sdc, but nothing for the whole
> thing.
>
> Is there a way to make this work?  I googled but I couldn't find anything on
> this one.  Well, a few worthless hits that just happen to have the words on
> the same page for some reason.

Look for /dev/dm-0 to monitor your lvm partition. that is what I use
to monitor my LVM /, swap, and /home partitions in the monitor setup.
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
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