[CentOS] is it safe to resize root, on an LVM system, online?

Rudi Ahlers Rudi at SoftDux.com
Mon Jul 12 11:44:48 UTC 2010


On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Hakan Koseoglu <hakan at koseoglu.org> wrote:
> On 12 July 2010 11:12, Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at softdux.com> wrote:
>>>> One of our servers has a too small root partition on LVM and needs to
>>>> be resized. Can / be safely increased online, without a reboot?
> Yes. If you use system-config-lvm and using ext3, it will let you do
> it all within a nice GUI as well.
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> Hakan (m1fcj) - http://www.hititgunesi.org
> _______________________________________________


It's a console-only server, i.e. no X installed. So I'll have to setup
a test server to see if I can do it without breaking abything

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