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

Max Hetrick maxhetrick at verizon.net
Mon Jul 12 12:15:13 UTC 2010


Rudi Ahlers wrote:

> 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
> 

There should be no issues doing it live.

# lvextend -L+1G /dev/myvg/myvol
# resize2fs /dev/myvg/myvol

Regards,
Max



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