>>> On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 11:08 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Patrick Spinler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> This is exactly why we run even our root in a LVM volume group. It's
> simply not true that you *never* need to resize root, here's someone
> else who needed to, and is having a PITA doing it.
I would say that anyone who needs to expand their root file system didn't set
their system up properly in the first place, whether due to inexperience or
other reasons. (Fixing the inexperience is why a lot of us are here.) This
system isn't ever going to need to have its root file system resized:
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/dasda1 1008M 521M 437M 55% /
tmpfs 122M 4.0K 122M 1% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/system-usr
2.0G 947M 967M 50% /usr
/dev/mapper/system-tmp
2.0G 65M 1.9G 4% /tmp
/dev/mapper/system-var
485M 318M 157M 67% /var
/dev/mapper/system-torvalds
534M 227M 308M 43% /home/git/pub/scm/linux-2.6.git
The only reason /home, /opt, and /srv aren't broken out is because I'm the only
person that ever logs on, nothing is going to be installed into /opt, and /srv
will only have two files in it. If any of that changes, one or more lvcreate
commands will fix that problem, and I know I'll always be able to boot my
system if LVM hiccups.
Mark Post
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