On 09-Nov-10, at 12:57 AM, Rakesh Kumar wrote: [snip]
First of all i would suggest you to go through some good tutorial on it. Thereafter i would add that LVM is basically something which is very helpful when you are running out of disk capacity. And it allows you to expand the disk size without loosing any data. ext3 is the format of file system.
Thanks for the tip, I guess I was a little unclear. The volgroup has plenty of unallocated space, I just need to increase the size of one of the ext3 partitions that resides in a logical volume on the volgroup.
This concludes that if you have to increase the size of ext3 partition by x, you should increase the size of LV by just slightly greater than your need, to get the optimum results.
Yes that is what I gathered from elsewhere too. What I am hoping for is a precise definition of "slightly." Is it a fixed amount indepedent of fs size? Simply a multiple of fs block size? A recurring amount to accommodate new backups of the superblock? I'm able to guess these, but I'd really like something resembling hard numbers.
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