On Thursday 18 December 2008 02:49:40 M.Lewis wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Thursday 18 December 2008, "M.Lewis" <ca...@cajuninc.com> wrote > > > > about 'Re: LVM reorganization': > >> Thanks Boyd. After reading through it a couple of times, it appears > >> pretty straight forward. > > > > I've done it probably a dozen times now, and it's not hard if you are > > careful. It also helps to know your way around either fuser or lsof to > > find (and kill if needed) processes using the areas you are moving to > > different LVs. > > > > Shrinking the LV is probably the most dangerous part. You don't want to > > have the filesystem be bigger than it's LV at any point. Make *sure* any > > filesystem on shrunk LVs are good before you start writing data to new or > > extended LVs. That data might end up over-writing the end of the > > filesystem! > > Please elaborate on how this is done. Visually? 'du -h'?
Run fsck on what ever filesystem you are using. Fix any errors you find. > > [snip] > > -- > > To be, or not to be, those are the parameters. > 01:45:01 up 1 day, 1:22, 1 user, load average: 1.71, 1.52, 1.17 > > Linux Registered User #241685 http://counter.li.org -- Damon L. Chesser da...@damtek.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
