Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes

[Dale]

Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 15 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>
>> I need to add space to /var (thank you, libreoffice), which is on lvm.
>> Since my one volume group vg is getting low, I thought this would be a
>> good time to extend it as well.
>>
>> Alan (McKinnon) has posted very helpful lvm bits (reprinted below).
>> Following alan's bottom up creation mandate I believe the idea is
> [snip]
>
> 1.  Thank you dale for "rc single".  This looks like what I have wanted
>      for a while, namely a replacement for single-user mode.
>
> 2.  Everyone seems to agree that you really can enlarge a mounted
>      ext3 file system.  I was going to try it except ...
>
> 3.  I decided to use another suggestion (from neil) to use
>      PORTAGE_TMPDIR, roeleveld's idea of just using temporary space, and
>      Webb suggested /z for extra space.
>
> So I made a normal linux ext3 partition on sda8, created the mount point
> /mnt/junk and when needed mount sda8 on /mnt/junk and set PORTAGE_TMPDIR
> accordingly.
>
> One more thing.  Some readers were suggesting I need 8 or so GB for
> libreoffice.  The failures occurred with 13GB.  Today's /mnt/junk
> success required 16GB.  Fortunately sda8 has 50GB.
>
> Thanks to all.
> allan
>
>


Dang !!

pkg_pretend() {
     if [[ ${MERGE_TYPE} != binary ]]; then
         CHECKREQS_MEMORY="1G"
         use debug && CHECKREQS_DISK_BUILD="15G" || 
CHECKREQS_DISK_BUILD="9G"
         check-reqs_pkg_pretend

That's a LOT of space.  9gbs of free space should be enough tho.  15Gbs 
if you use debug.

Dale

:-)  :-)

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Miss the compile output?  Hint:
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"