On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 09:25:43 +0000 "Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)" <jean-luc.coulon@wanadoo.fr> wrote: >Le 30.01.2005 08:10:52, matthew zeier a écrit : >> >> Are there any tips on converting an existing ext3 / to LVM? Be carefull; as I know converting an EXISTING ext3 to LVM loses all data. Jean-Luc, can you confirm this ?? >> I found >> something that talks about ext2 using LVM1 but I'm not sure if that >> applies to my system (RHEL ES v3). > >LVM is not a filestem and is not aware of the filesystem you will >install on it. > >I've installed xfs filesystem over lvm with the same instructions as >for ext2. > >Only the tolls to resize the ilesystem are different. >Some filesystems needs to be mounted, other to be unmounted. >i.e: you can reeeeize an xfs only if t is mounted and you cannot >schrink it, only growing is avalable. > >> >> -- >> matthew zeier > >Jean-Luc > _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
