Re: LVM reorganization [follow-up]

2008-12-23 Thread M.Lewis
Rick Thomas wrote: On Dec 22, 2008, at 1:52 AM, M.Lewis wrote: e2fsck -f /dev/curley/home# check consistency before starting (may be required by resize2fs?) resize2fs /dev/curley/home 30G# change the size of (fs) /dev/curley/home from whatever it is, to 30GB lvreduce

Re: LVM reorganization [follow-up]

2008-12-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 22, 2008, at 1:52 AM, M.Lewis wrote: e2fsck -f /dev/curley/home # check consistency before starting (may be required by resize2fs?) resize2fs /dev/curley/home 30G # change the size of (fs) /dev/ curley/home from whatever it is, to 30GB lvreduce -L 30G /dev/curley/home

Re: LVM reorganization [follow-up]

2008-12-21 Thread M.Lewis
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 2008 December 17 23:30:04 M.Lewis wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 2008 December 17 23:00:41 M.Lewis wrote: Given a Lenny LVM setup as follows: Is it possible to reorganize the current LVM to separate out say /var & /tmp into their o

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-18 Thread Alex Samad
> > > On Thursday 18 December 2008, Alex Samad wrote > > > > about 'Re: LVM reorganization': > > > > >1 word > > > > > > > > > >backup > > > > > > > > 3 words: > > > > 4 TB /home > >

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 2008 December 18 17:07:33 Rob Starling wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 06:42:20AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 08:23:58AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > On Thursday 18 December 2008, Alex Samad wrote > > > about 'R

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-18 Thread Rob Starling
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 06:42:20AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 08:23:58AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Thursday 18 December 2008, Alex Samad wrote > > about 'Re: LVM reorganization': > > >On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 01:31:18AM -

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 2008 December 18 12:07:04 wauh...@yahoo.com wrote: > Is there really not one tool, which can print out the selections having > been made during the "BASIC INSTALL" and which additional apt-packages - > actually remain installed - probably from the logfiles - and which > configuration fi

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-18 Thread M.Lewis
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 2008 December 17 23:30:04 M.Lewis wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 2008 December 17 23:00:41 M.Lewis wrote: Given a Lenny LVM setup as follows: rattler:~# lvs LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy%

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 08:23:58AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Thursday 18 December 2008, Alex Samad wrote > about 'Re: LVM reorganization': > >On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 01:31:18AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >[snip] > > > >> Shri

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-18 Thread wauh...@yahoo.com
M.Lewis wrote: [...] Thanks Boyd. After reading through it a couple of times, it appears pretty straight forward. I had thoughts of reinstalling (with the partitioning/LVM setup right), but that would mean I'd have to sort out somehow which additional packages that I have installed since the

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 18 December 2008, Alex Samad wrote about 'Re: LVM reorganization': >On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 01:31:18AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >[snip] > >> Shrinking the LV is probably the most dangerous part. You don't want >> to > >1 word

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thursday 18 December 2008 02:49:40 M.Lewis wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Thursday 18 December 2008, "M.Lewis" wrote > > > > about 'Re: LVM reorganization': > >> Thanks Boyd. After reading through it a couple of times, it appea

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thursday 18 December 2008 02:49:40 M.Lewis wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Thursday 18 December 2008, "M.Lewis" wrote > > > > about 'Re: LVM reorganization': > >> Thanks Boyd. After reading through it a couple of times, it appea

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 01:31:18AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: [snip] > > Shrinking the LV is probably the most dangerous part. You don't want to 1 word backup > have the filesystem be bigger than it's LV at any point. Make *sure* any > filesystem on shrunk LVs are good before you

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-17 Thread M.Lewis
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Thursday 18 December 2008, "M.Lewis" 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

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 18 December 2008, "M.Lewis" 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. I

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-17 Thread M.Lewis
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 2008 December 17 23:30:04 M.Lewis wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 2008 December 17 23:00:41 M.Lewis wrote: Given a Lenny LVM setup as follows: rattler:~# lvs LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy%

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 2008 December 17 23:30:04 M.Lewis wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Wednesday 2008 December 17 23:00:41 M.Lewis wrote: > >> Given a Lenny LVM setup as follows: > >> > >> rattler:~# lvs > >>LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log > >> Copy% Conv

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-17 Thread M.Lewis
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 2008 December 17 23:00:41 M.Lewis wrote: Given a Lenny LVM setup as follows: rattler:~# lvs LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert home rattler -wi-ao 65.02G root rattler

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 2008 December 17 23:00:41 M.Lewis wrote: > Given a Lenny LVM setup as follows: > > rattler:~# lvs >LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log > Copy% Convert >home rattler -wi-ao 65.02G >root rattler -wi-ao 6.68G >sw