On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Sirtaj Singh Kang <sir...@sirtaj.net> wrote:
> > On 09-Nov-10, at 12:57 AM, Rakesh Kumar wrote: > [snip] > > First of all i would suggest you to go through some good tutorial on it. >> Thereafter i would add that LVM is basically something which is very helpful >> when you are running out of disk capacity. And it allows you to expand the >> disk size without loosing any data. ext3 is the format of file system. >> > > Thanks for the tip, I guess I was a little unclear. The volgroup has plenty > of unallocated space, I just need to increase the size of one of the ext3 > partitions that resides in a logical volume on the volgroup. > > > This concludes that if you have to increase the size of ext3 partition by >> x, you should increase the size of LV by just slightly greater than your >> need, to get the optimum results. >> > > Yes that is what I gathered from elsewhere too. What I am hoping for is a > precise definition of "slightly." Is it a fixed amount indepedent of fs > size? Simply a multiple of fs block size? A recurring amount to accommodate > new backups of the superblock? I'm able to guess these, but I'd really like > something resembling hard numbers. > "Slighly" has not a very big significant here. but you can increase your > size equal to the size of LV, but may be because the fs is divided into > small blocks so you might have take the size of fs slightly greater or equal > to the size of LV. > > -Taj. > > _______________________________________________ > Ilugd mailing list > Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > -- Regards RAKESH "Allow Your Own Inner Light to Guide You" _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
