LVM management (was Re: Boot sequence

[John Hubbard]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
>
>   
>> I'm trying out kvpm, now, but there's system-config-lvm for gnome. 
>> So, yes, the desktop supports LVM.
>>     
>
> With caveats.
>
> I created a Logical Volume on one of the spare partitions.
> I then extended the existing Volume Group to include the volume.
>
> So far, so good, no problem.
> Then I extended /home to include the new space.  Oops.  :-)  It works - 
> and it might work better or worse if you have a different filesystem on 
> the partition you're extending (in this case JFS), but when I extended 
> the /home partition, it automatically extended the filesystem - and 
> _that_ required remounting RO (presumably because I was using it at the 
> time).  So I still ended up having to reboot (one of the very few cases 
> where I miss having a root account - you can't be logged into a non-root 
> account without /home being in use [well, I suppose even that's not 
> really true, but creating an account with it's home directories 
> somewhere else seems just silly]).
>
> Needless to say, don't do this without a backup :-)
>   
Doesn't 'sudo su' get you logged in as root? Or is the problem that you 
are still also logged in as your normal user?

-- 
-john

To be or not to be, that is the question
                2b || !2b
(0b10)*(0b1100010) || !(0b10)*(0b1100010)
        0b11000100 || !0b11000100
        0b11000100 || 0b00111011
               0b11111111
        255, that is the answer.