Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2 questions

2009-06-05 Thread Philip Webb
090604 Maxim Wexler wrote: why give the logical volumes any size at all ? If they can be expanded at will, why not just the let the files fill them up as much as they need ? That's not how it works: you need to create the LVs with enough space for your likely needs LVM then assigns them in

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2 questions

2009-06-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 02:16:20 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: That's not how it works: you need to create the LVs with enough space for your likely needs LVM then assigns them in its own way to the PVs; later, if you made an LV too small, you can increase it (you also have to extend the file system

[gentoo-user] lvm2 questions

2009-06-04 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, Creating LVM partitions on SSD and SD card using systemrescuecd-1.2.0 while following doc, 'Gentoo LVM2 installation'. In the doc it says to edit the 'filter =' statement in lvm.conf in order to scan the correct devices. But just below it says to use #pvcreate with the appropriate

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2 questions

2009-06-04 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 13:01 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group, Creating LVM partitions on SSD and SD card using systemrescuecd-1.2.0 while following doc, 'Gentoo LVM2 installation'. In the doc it says to edit the 'filter =' statement in lvm.conf in order to scan the correct devices. But

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2 questions

2009-06-04 Thread Maxim Wexler
On 6/4/09, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: You'll know if LVM has detected your PVs by running pvdisplay. Check! Thanks Albert Another please, from the doc: Note: As Terje Kvernes commented, it is easier to increase the size of a partition then to shrink it. You might therefore