Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 28. Februar 2006 10:29 schrieb ext Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.: > IMO, finding a binary in /bin or /sbin that links to a library in /usr > (including /usr/local etc.) is probably grounds for a bug report, even if > it's not currently causing any problems. Yep. > > So you > > have to be ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 27 February 2006 23:01, Zac Slade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question': > On Monday 27 February 2006 00:48, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Wrong. Switch to runlevel 1 (using "telinit 1"), which is for > > ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-28 Thread Zac Slade
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 03:03, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Oops, you're right, telinit 1 doesn't work as expected in Gentoo (are there > any bugreports about it?). However, I can reboot into RL 1 just fine and > umount /usr w/o problems. I can also use ls just fine with /usr unmounted, > all fs mai

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 28. Februar 2006 06:01 schrieb ext Zac Slade: > On Monday 27 February 2006 00:48, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Wrong. Switch to runlevel 1 (using "telinit 1"), which is for > > maintenance. In RL 1, no user processes are running and you can umount > > everything except /. > > Partially ri

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-28 Thread Zac Slade
On Monday 27 February 2006 00:48, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Wrong. Switch to runlevel 1 (using "telinit 1"), which is for maintenance. > In RL 1, no user processes are running and you can umount everything > except /. Partially right. Gentoo has several gotchas in runlevel 1. If /usr is a seperate

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 25. Februar 2006 11:44 schrieb ext Jarry: > I mean I can not resize them off-line because I can not unmount them > while system is running :-) Wrong. Switch to runlevel 1 (using "telinit 1"), which is for maintenance. In RL 1, no user processes are running and you can umount everythi

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-25 Thread Alexander Skwar
Holly Bostick wrote: > Alexander Skwar schreef: >> >> Okay, so the following fs are online resizable, according to you: >> >> - reiser3 - xfs - jfs - ext2, ext3 >> >> That's pretty much "every FS", isn't it? > > Yes, but as far as I know from the docs, jfs and xfs can only be *grown* > online,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-25 Thread Holly Bostick
Alexander Skwar schreef: > > Okay, so the following fs are online resizable, according to you: > > - reiser3 - xfs - jfs - ext2, ext3 > > That's pretty much "every FS", isn't it? Yes, but as far as I know from the docs, jfs and xfs can only be *grown* online, not shrunk, which could be a proble

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-25 Thread Alexander Skwar
Jarry wrote: > Alexander Skwar wrote: > >>>I could not resize /usr or /var off-line, >> >> That's wrong. I suppose that those are your ext* fs? >> If so, you can perfectly fine resize those fs while >> they are offline. > > I mean I can not resize them off-line because I can not unmount them > w

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-25 Thread Jarry
Alexander Skwar wrote: >>I could not resize /usr or /var off-line, > > That's wrong. I suppose that those are your ext* fs? > If so, you can perfectly fine resize those fs while > they are offline. I mean I can not resize them off-line because I can not unmount them while system is running :-) M

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-25 Thread Alexander Skwar
Jarry wrote: > Zac Slade wrote: > >> reiser3, resizable online in two ways >> 1)resize_reiserfs /path/to/dev >> 2)mount -o remount,resize /path/to/dev >> XFS, MUST be mounted to resize use xfs_grow /mount/point >> JFS, resizable online with a mount -o remount,resize /path/to/dev >> ext

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-24 Thread Jarry
Zac Slade wrote: > reiser3, resizable online in two ways > 1)resize_reiserfs /path/to/dev > 2)mount -o remount,resize /path/to/dev > XFS, MUST be mounted to resize use xfs_grow /mount/point > JFS, resizable online with a mount -o remount,resize /path/to/dev > ext2/3, resizable offlin

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
John Jolet wrote: > >> What an unenlighten troll. I have plenty of experience with AIX's >> volume >> manager. LVM2 can stand up to it any day. As a matter of fact >> Linux's LVM >> is about to completely surpass what is available in AIX. LVM2 can >> do cluster >> locking and management.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
John Jolet wrote: > On Feb 24, 2006, at 9:35 PM, Zac Slade wrote: > >> On Friday 24 February 2006 00:03, Alexander Skwar wrote: >>> John Jolet wrote: Remember, the fs cannot be mounted when you extend it. >>> >>> That's wrong. Every FS can be extended online, even ext{2,3} >>> with certain pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
Zac Slade wrote: > On Friday 24 February 2006 00:03, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> John Jolet wrote: >> > Remember, the fs cannot be mounted when you extend it. >> >> That's wrong. Every FS can be extended online, even ext{2,3} >> with certain patches IIRC. > WRONG!!! (or partially anyway) Here's the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-24 Thread John Jolet
What an unenlighten troll. I have plenty of experience with AIX's volume manager. LVM2 can stand up to it any day. As a matter of fact Linux's LVM is about to completely surpass what is available in AIX. LVM2 can do cluster locking and management. You can use LVM2 with Multipathing to

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-24 Thread Zac Slade
On Friday 24 February 2006 22:13, John Jolet wrote: > okay, i'll rephrase being an old aix hand... with the (possible) > exeption of reiser I, personally, would not trust any filesystem > to resize without being unmounted. but then, compared to the aix > lvm, which can be resized with orac

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-24 Thread John Jolet
On Feb 24, 2006, at 9:35 PM, Zac Slade wrote: On Friday 24 February 2006 00:03, Alexander Skwar wrote: John Jolet wrote: Remember, the fs cannot be mounted when you extend it. That's wrong. Every FS can be extended online, even ext{2,3} with certain patches IIRC. WRONG!!! (or partially any

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-24 Thread Zac Slade
On Friday 24 February 2006 00:03, Alexander Skwar wrote: > John Jolet wrote: > > Remember, the fs cannot be mounted when you extend it. > > That's wrong. Every FS can be extended online, even ext{2,3} > with certain patches IIRC. WRONG!!! (or partially anyway) Here's the rundown: reiser3, resizabl

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-24 Thread CR Little
Worked! Thanks! -Original Message- From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 5:57 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question On Thursday 23 February 2006 17:29, "CR Little" <[EM

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-23 Thread Alexander Skwar
John Jolet wrote: > Remember, the fs cannot be mounted when you extend it. That's wrong. Every FS can be extended online, even ext{2,3} with certain patches IIRC. Alexander Skwar -- It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. -- Har

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 23 February 2006 17:29, "CR Little" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question': > Apparently when I created my first drive pv. I missed something as well > > I have /dev/sda8-14 which are not set allocatable >

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-23 Thread CR Little
ginal Message- From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 4:35 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question On Thursday 23 February 2006 15:59, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 23 February 2006 15:59, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question': > Remember, the fs cannot be mounted when you extend it. LOL! -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-23 Thread John Jolet
Title: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question On 2/23/06 2:22 PM, "CR Little" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I’m having a problem with LVM.   I setup a volume group it had 5.91G in Free PE/Size now states 0/0 I have a logical volume inside that I tried to extend   It now

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-23 Thread CR Little
The unmount/ resize2fs /dev/vg/home worked thanks!/ -Original Message- From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 3:36 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question On Thursday 23 February 2006 14

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 23 February 2006 14:58, "CR Little" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question': > I'm using ext3 A: Because it reverses the logical progression of the conversation. Q: Why shouldn't I top post? Aaaanywa

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-23 Thread Qv6
On Thursday 23 February 2006 02:22 pm, CR Little wrote: > I'm having a problem with LVM. > > I setup a volume group it had 5.91G in Free PE/Size now states 0/0 > > --- Volume group --- > > VG Name vg > > > VG Size 55.91 GB > > PE Size 4.00 MB > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-23 Thread Alexander Skwar
CR Little wrote: > It now states 10.91 GB for LV Size. This lv is mounted to /home when I > ran lvextend –L+5.91G /dev/vg/home it extended the lv but when you run > df-h it doesn’t show an increased size. Of course not - why should it? Increasing the size of an LV doesn't change the size of the f

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-23 Thread CR Little
I'm using ext3 -Original Message- From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 2:41 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question On Thursday 23 February 2006 14:22, "CR Little" &l

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 23 February 2006 14:22, "CR Little" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question': > I'm having a problem with LVM. > > I setup a volume group it had 5.91G in Free PE/Size now states 0/0 > I have a logical vo

[gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-23 Thread CR Little
I’m having a problem with LVM.   I setup a volume group it had 5.91G in Free PE/Size now states 0/0   --- Volume group ---   VG Name   vg   System ID   Format    lvm2   Metadata Areas    3   Metadata Sequence No  9   VG Access read/write