Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 01 Jul 2003 18:19:57 +0200 | From | "Leonard Milcin Jr." <> | Subject | Re: File System conversion -- ideas |
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Stewart Smith wrote: > This is exactly what has been said before in this thread > - i.e. mount the new FS over the old one (union style) > and new writes go to the new FS. > > I really thing LVM resizing automagick would be the way to go to. > *much* cleaner and easier to implement. > > The real useful thing to do would be to write a utility that would > convert non-LVM systems to LVM. >
I said that too, some time ago. But don't know why it didn't reach LKML. Perhaps my fault...
LVM resizing would be very good, because most of it is already coded.
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