resize partition

[Tony Arnold]

Johan Ramm-Ericson wrote:
> On Wed, November 8, 2006 Andy wrote:
> 
>> On 08/11/06, Rares Vernica <rvernica at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> gparted just give me an error I did not know what to do with it.
>> Did you make sure the partition you where resizing was not mounted at
> the
>> time?
>> I don't think you can resize a partition if its mounted (if you can its
> probably a bad idea to).
>> - Andy
> 
> You can resize a partition online if it is a logical volume ("man lvm"  or
> "sudo apt-get install lvm2 ; man lvm").

You can certainly resize a logical volume on line, but you also have to
resize the file system in the logical volume, and that depends on the
type of the file system. I recently expanded a reiserfs system in a
logical volume while it was mounted wit no problem. Shrinking is a
different matter.

And to be really picky, a logical volume is not a partition!

Regards,
Tony.
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