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

2011-12-15 Thread Jens Müller
Am 16.12.2011 03:18, schrieb Allan Gottlieb: Questions 1. Apparently 2.6 (hence 3.x) kernels can expand mounted file systems (/var is mounted as ext3). Since I can't unmount /var because it is in use, I guess that, if I every need to shrink /var, I would need to boot off a CD.

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

2011-12-15 Thread Jens Müller
Am 16.12.2011 04:05, schrieb Jens Müller: resize2fs also supports shrinking ext3 partitions, see http://linux.die.net/man/8/resize2fs Sorry about that one - yes, the fs must be unmounted to do this. - Jens