On 4/20/2008, David Robinson (zxvdr.au@gmail.com) wrote:
OT: this list seems a little on the dead side... is there a more
active LVM oriented list that you are aware of?
The list is active, but its quiet on weekends ;)
Oh, right, I forget that some people actually have lives outside work,
unlike me... ;)
You could modify the partition table in one step rather than two. Use
fdisk to delete both partitions then create a new partition that
spans the entire device (just make sure that you create the partition
with the same start block). The end result should look something like:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 58352 468712408+ 8e Linux LVM
I have read about doing this, but somehow it just gives me the shudders...
I'll have to play with it sometime in a VM...
resize /dev/sdb1, reboot, then
You may not need to reboot at all... you could use "partprobe" or
"blockdev --rereadpt", but check /proc/partitions to make sure that
the kernel knows of the new partition table. I've seen instances
where partprobe doesn't actually cause the partition table to be
refreshed.
Thanks - have to read up on partprobe too...
Still feel like a newbie sometimes, even though I've been using Linux
for almost two years now (came over from the windows world)...
So, again - does it really matter? Is having my vg2 in one big LVM
partition 'better' than having it consist of two different partitions?
There's no difference, LVM doesn't care.
Ok, thanks... thats what I'll do for now... I'm actually planning on
replacing this server with a different one and rebuilding everything
from scratch in a few months anyway, so I'll redo the partitions then...
For now, simple and safe is best... my main goal is to keep /var from
filling up...
--
Best regards,
Charles
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