[brlug-general] Moving the /usr files

Thu Jul 16 16:16:38 CDT 2009

looks like it's a limitation of the GUI. See
http://geekdom.wesmo.com/2009/07/07/extend-the-root-lvm-with-a-live-system/

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Jarred White <jwhite at pncpa.com> wrote:

>  Well now I found how to extend the size of LogVol00 to include the unused
> space, except that it wants to unmount / in order for me to resize it, which
> of course it can’t do. How in the heck am I going to get around that? :)
>
>
>
> Do I need to boot to single user and use the command line tools? Even then,
> / will be mounted and I’ll probably be unable to unmount.
>
>
>
> *From:* general-bounces at brlug.net [mailto:general-bounces at brlug.net] *On
> Behalf Of *Tim Fournet
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 16, 2009 3:54 PM
>
> *To:* general at brlug.net
> *Subject:* Re: [brlug-general] Moving the /usr files
>
>
>
> You're on the right track. You just need to select the volume you want to
> extend and then extend it into the free space
>
> This is the great thing about LVM. You can provision a server ,and then if
> it turns out you didn't give it enough space, you can add space to it
> without reconfiguring
>
>  On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Jarred White <jwhite at pncpa.com> wrote:
>
> Okay, I now have sdb1 added to VolGroup00. Under which I see /dev/sda and
> /dev/sdb. Is that all that remains, or is it necessary to do something else
> with the volume after merging it with an existing volume group? Here’s the
> updated screenshot:
>
>
>
> http://tp.eblana.org/newlogvol.bmp
>
>
>
> if what I’m seeing makes sense, then this should be the last stop? I should
> be able to apply these changes and then reboot, and when I reboot I should
> find that there are no problems?
>
>
>
> *From:* general-bounces at brlug.net [mailto:general-bounces at brlug.net] *On
> Behalf Of *Tim Fournet
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 16, 2009 3:26 PM
>
>
> *To:* general at brlug.net
> *Subject:* Re: [brlug-general] Moving the /usr files
>
>
>
> Ah, I didn't see this email before I responded.
> You want to Initialize the entity (this turns the volume into an
> LVM-compatible volume)
> Then, you're going to add it to your VolGroup00
> Then you're going to Extend your desired LogVol to include the space that's
> been made available by the new storage
>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Jarred White <jwhite at pncpa.com> wrote:
>
> Here's a screenshot of lvm. I highlighted sdb1, but honestly I can't
> really figure out what I might need to do here. Initialize the entity?
> Wtf does that do? One thing I know it does is delete all data on the
> entity. :p
>
> http://tp.eblana.org/logvol.bmp
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: general-bounces at brlug.net [mailto:general-bounces at brlug.net] On
>
> Behalf Of Brad Bendily
> Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 3:01 PM
> To: general at brlug.net
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Moving the /usr files
>
> I was talking about the fourth field, "fs_mntops". You currently have
> "defaults" listed, but there are other options.
> "defaults" should be ok, but possibly need to change it. My suse boxes
> have "acl,user_xattr".
>
> Did you say which distro this is? Are you sure mount point is correct?
> You did say, you're using Fedora. I happen to have  Fedora on my laptop,
> the mount points in my default fstab are for volume groups:
> like this:
>
> UUID=aafdafasfxxxsdfsdf /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
> /dev/mapper/vg_lela-lv_root / ext4 defaults 1 2
> /dev/mapper/vg_lela-lv_swap swap defaults 0 0
>
> So, maybe your mount point is not right?
> Can we see your existing fstab?
> and the output of
> fdisk -l
>
> bb
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Jarred White<jwhite at pncpa.com> wrote:
> > Good question. It's 755 and root:root. /usrbak has the same, and the
> perms
> > weren't modified prior to me mv'ing it.
> >
> >
> >
> > Brad - good question... in the examples I found through searching,
> most people
> > seemed to indicate that the defaults would be fine. The final two
> columns
> > deal with backup and fsck options. My understanding is that most hard
> drives
> > or mount points with real data should have a 1 in the first column
> (since
> > they should be backed up) and that the second column simply deals with
> the
> > order it should be fsck'ed in. I have tried it with: 1 2, 1 1 and 1 3
> with
> > no evident change in error messages or success :\
> >
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