LVM2 and resizing

[Austin Godber]

Wait, you have been able to resize mounted ext3 partitions?  I didn't  
think that was possible?

Austin

On Apr 15, 2008, at 10:53 AM, Mike Bydalek wrote:
> I'll say that I've been resizing production machines for a few years  
> now
> without any issues.  This includes ext3 and reiserfs.  One of the
> partitions I am frequently resizing contains our Scalix mail store.   
> So
> far, I haven't had any issues with locking, db's, etc.
>
> -Mike
>
> der.hans wrote:
>> moin moin,
>>
>> is it generally safe to resize, move, etc. an LVM partition without
>> unmounting the partitions on top of it?
>>
>> How about resizing ext3 on the fly as well?
>>
>> reiserfs? Other Free FSen?
>>
>> It worked fine for me yesterday in a VM, but I wasn't really doing
>> anything in the VM, except playing with the LVM setup.
>>
>> That situation doesn't really tell he what would happen on a real  
>> FS where
>> people and processes have lock files and are reading and writing  
>> files or
>> what a database thinks about having it's filesystem mucked with.
>>
>> ciao,
>>
>> der.hans
>>
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