Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:42:01 -0500 | Subject | Re: LVM and root. | From | Bryan Donlan <> |
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On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Cristi Magherusan <Cristi.Magherusan@net.utcluj.ro> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 01:48 +0530, Prateek Donni wrote: >> Changing size of root partition in LVM . Is it possible .. ? > The LVM volume could be resized, but for resizing the partition you may > need to use a live CD, since IIRC you cannot resize a mounted > filesystem.
Many filesystems actually do support online resize - ext3, reiserfs, and xfs I know support it, as well as others, probably. Of course, running fsck -> resize -> fsck from a livecd is probably the /safest/ route...
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