Re: [gentoo-user] Installing 2005.0 with LVM2

2005-05-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 01 May 2005 19:18:02 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > Yes, unless its a non-core partition and can be unmounted, and even then > it would probably still be safer to do from a livecd. Unless it is XFS, which can only be resized when mounted. -- Neil Bothwick Things which must be shipp

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing 2005.0 with LVM2

2005-05-01 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 1. Mai 2005 07:41 schrieb ext Mrugesh Karnik: > OK. Installation complete. Everything went fine (well, I'm a lier ;) ). > Anyways, just a few more queries... > > During the installation, I extended one of the volumes by 2GB. But if I > run df -hT, it still shows me the previous value. W

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing 2005.0 with LVM2

2005-05-01 Thread W.Kenworthy
Depends on the filesystem type: I use reiserfs and the tool is resize_reiserfs from sys-fs/reiserfsprogs. I have increased the size on partitions containing data with no problems at all, but have not tried to reduce a partition yet (you shrink the fs first, then the LVM partition). BillK On Sun

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing 2005.0 with LVM2

2005-05-01 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
William Kenworthy wrote: Did you grow the filesystem into the space you made with LVM ? Ooops! Help? Yes, unless its a non-core partition and can be unmounted, and even then it would probably still be safer to do from a livecd. OK.. LiveCD it shall be :) BillK Thanks, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing 2005.0 with LVM2

2005-05-01 Thread William Kenworthy
Did you grow the filesystem into the space you made with LVM ? Yes, unless its a non-core partition and can be unmounted, and even then it would probably still be safer to do from a livecd. BillK On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 11:11 +0530, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > OK. Installation complete. Everything we

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing 2005.0 with LVM2

2005-05-01 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
OK. Installation complete. Everything went fine (well, I'm a lier ;) ). Anyways, just a few more queries... During the installation, I extended one of the volumes by 2GB. But if I run df -hT, it still shows me the previous value. Why is this? How do I solve this? Also, after installation, now,

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing 2005.0 with LVM2

2005-04-19 Thread Kiawud
> Thanks for the replies guys. I haven't actually had time to proceed with > the installation yet, so I haven't tried what you have suggested. > > I have another query though. How do I get these volumes to initialize at > every boot? > On my system, the '/etc/init.d/checkfs' script does the 'vgc

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing 2005.0 with LVM2

2005-04-19 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Rumen Yotov wrote: Mrugesh Karnik wrote: Kiawud wrote: On 4/16/05, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello folks, I'm trying to install Gentoo with LVM2. I had to stop the installation at one point and reboot the pc. Later, I booted with LiveCD again and now I'm wondering how I am to get

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing 2005.0 with LVM2

2005-04-17 Thread Rumen Yotov
Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > Kiawud wrote: > >> On 4/16/05, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Hello folks, >>> >>> I'm trying to install Gentoo with LVM2. I had to stop the installation >>> at one point and reboot the pc. Later, I booted with LiveCD again and >>> now I'm wondering how I

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing 2005.0 with LVM2

2005-04-16 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Kiawud wrote: On 4/16/05, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello folks, I'm trying to install Gentoo with LVM2. I had to stop the installation at one point and reboot the pc. Later, I booted with LiveCD again and now I'm wondering how I am to get my volumes back... I did the following (I d

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing 2005.0 with LVM2

2005-04-16 Thread Kiawud
On 4/16/05, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello folks, > > I'm trying to install Gentoo with LVM2. I had to stop the installation > at one point and reboot the pc. Later, I booted with LiveCD again and > now I'm wondering how I am to get my volumes back... > > I did the following (I

[gentoo-user] Installing 2005.0 with LVM2

2005-04-16 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Hello folks, I'm trying to install Gentoo with LVM2. I had to stop the installation at one point and reboot the pc. Later, I booted with LiveCD again and now I'm wondering how I am to get my volumes back... I did the following (I definitely think that I'm doing something wrong here! I admit tha