[CentOS] Partitionning for future.

Mon Jun 29 23:30:57 UTC 2009
Mathew S. McCarrell <mccarrms at gmail.com>

Yaovi,

Make sure that you never put /boot on LVM because your machine will not
boot.

Matt

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Mathew S. McCarrell
Clarkson University '10

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On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:50 AM, Yaovi Atohoun <yaovito at yahoo.fr> wrote:

>  Thanks.
> I didn't put / and /boot in the Volume Group. Is it ok?
>
> Yaovi
>
> --- En date de : *Dim 28.6..09, David Goldsmith <dgoldsmith at sans.org>* a
> écrit :
>
>
> De: David Goldsmith <dgoldsmith at sans.org>
> Objet: Re: [CentOS] Partitionning for future.
> À: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
> Date: Dimanche 28 Juin 2009, 17h38
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> Yaovi Atohoun wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a disk of 146Gb in a machine intended to have mainly mysql
> > database, apache and some web data.  I didn't use LVM for / and /boot
> > during the installtion
> >
> > Could I extend  easily in the future the /var partition  when I add
> > another disk?
> >
> >  Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/cciss/c0d0p6      23G  432M   22G   2% /
> > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
> >                       5.0G  139M  4.7G   3% /home
> > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol03
> >                        98G  275M   93G   1% /var
> > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02
> >                       5.0G  2.9G  1.9G  61% /usr
> > /dev/cciss/c0d0p1      99M   19M   75M  20% /boot
> > tmpfs                 470M     0  470M   0% /dev/shm
> >
> > I would like to have your comments before I continue installin MySQL and
> > others.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Yaovi
>
> Yes, add a new disk to the system, then run commands such as:
>
> pvcreate /dev/<whatever device it is>
>
> vgextend VolGroup00 /dev/<whatever device it is>
>
> lvextend (either -l +## to add extents or -L +## to add size)
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol03
>
> resize2fs /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol03
>
> - --
> David Goldsmith
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