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
