Agreed. I didn't trust hot swap HDDs either for a LONG time. Personally, my advice would be that if it can be done afterhours, or while the FS is unused, then do it then. If that isn't a viable option, then, well...it's not working now, what are you going to do, break it?
Make sure you have a good backup. Perhaps if it's EXT2/3 you could change the reserverd blocks to 1% rather than the default of 5%. I've never tried it, but if you could do this on the fly; and I'm not sure that you could; it would give you some extra writable space without really making major changes to the FS. I'd get someone else's opinion on this before trying it though. Speaking of File Systems, will Reiser be incorporated into the 2.6 Kernel? Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil Jolly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Calgary Linux User Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 3:07 PM Subject: Re: (clug-talk) LVM Resize > On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 14:51, Jeffrey Clement wrote: > > Wasn't the idea with LVM that you could do stuff like that on the fly? > > So they say. I'm just not real trusting when it comes to resizing a file > system while people are reading and writing to it. Mybe I'm just too old > fashioned ;-). > > > > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:42:06PM -0600, Neil Jolly wrote: > > > Has anybody tried extending a logical volume with the server online? A > > > client of mine has run out of disk space for the mysql partition, and > > > wants it resized. Should I be taking down the server first? I've done > > > this on servers before, but never while it's online. What d'ya say > > > folks? > > > > > > -- > Neil Jolly > > (with Yoda-like voice) > "Confrontation leads to anger... Anger leads to fear... Fear leads > to using Windows NT in mission-critical combat systems... And this is > how the ancients fell... > > >
