lvm
Extend LV & FS on-line with one command
Today my GNOME 3 told me, that my root partition is filling in pretty quickly and there’s not much space left. I looked into it and figured that 1 GB of additional space will suffice for some time. Since version 2.02.86 of lvm2 package, there’s a new flag for lvextend command: -r (--resizefs):Resi…
Filip Chabik
Migrating to new Logical Volume
Recently I had some disk issues on my server and unfortunately it went to load average above 20 (which was killing for this machine). It forced me to power down the machine completely and to investigate it further. (It turned out that issue was with space on /home partition -- sharing file system b…
Filip Chabik
Updating GRUB device.map file after adding a new disk
Recently I wrote about extending existing VG in LVM by adding new external hard disk on USB. Basically I covered the topic fully, although today during installation of new kernel (2.6.39 from squeeze-backports) I encounter some errors. It took my awhile while I found out, that the most important one…
Filip Chabik
Extending LVM & FS online with new disk
Recently my brother gave me his old laptop (some Sony Vaio) and I decided, that I will make mini-shell-server from it. It actually works great this way, but I encounter small obstacle – it has only 80G hard disk. It’s hard to extend this disk inside, so the more straight forward way was to add new…
Filip Chabik