There have been several times when people have posted to this list asking for help recovering when a LVM containing the root filesystem has gone bad. It may be that when using VM you have more of a chance of messing up.
Why would you need to expand the root FS? You should be splitting out /opt, /tmp, and /usr, which I think would keep any files that are going to grow off of the root. If there is some other directory that has files that are going to grow I would separate it onto another disk as well. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ryan McCain Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 8:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Root filesystem Thats the issue we are trying to avoid if possible. If we could put /, /opt, /usr, /lib, etc. etc. into LVM, we won't have to guestimate how much disk we'll need from the outset. We could grow as needed. In the x86 world, we've been putting / in LVM for years and have never had a problem. Is there something specific about z/VM that doesn't play well with / in LVM? I keep reading where it's not a good idea to put / in LVM, but can you (or someone else) define actually why it's not a good idea? Thanks, Ryan >>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:15 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert J Brenneman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Leave it outside LVM. It's one less thing you'll get paged about at 3 AM on > Sunday. Use LVM for everything else, but leave / on a basic plain old > partition. > > > -- > Jay Brenneman > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 __________________________________________________________________________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email from the State of California is for the sole use of the intended recipient and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review or use, including disclosure or distribution, is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this email. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
