LVM+ext3 rocks

6 06 2008

I guess this is old news to most people, but I’m still excited: The combination of LVM and ext3 makes it possible to resize a partition while it is still mounted.

The short story:
root@TreeHouse:~# lvextend -L+1G /dev/hd/kubuntu
Extending logical volume kubuntu to 6.00 GB
Logical volume kubuntu successfully resized
root@TreeHouse:~# resize2fs /dev/hd/kubuntu
resize2fs 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008)
Filesystem at /dev/hd/kubuntu is mounted on /; on-line resizing required
old desc_blocks = 1, new_desc_blocks = 1
Performing an on-line resize of /dev/hd/kubuntu to 1572864 (4k) blocks.
The filesystem on /dev/hd/kubuntu is now 1572864 blocks long.
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