[CentOS] LVM lvresize/lvextend requires some space in /etc to grow a logical volume?

Tue Sep 20 01:56:47 UTC 2011
Johnny Tan <johnnydtan at gmail.com>

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Stefan Held <obi at unixkiste.org> wrote:
> Am Montag, den 19.09.2011, 19:15 -0400 schrieb Johnny Tan:
>> Anyway, here's the real issue with LVM, at least in CentOS-6:
>>
> You would deal with the same issues in older lvm versions.

Thanks Stefan. I guess I just never noticed previously.

>> [root at jttest ~]# df
>> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/mapper/vg_main-lv_root
>>                        1548144   1548144         0 100% /
>>
>
> Do i read that correctly and 1548144 1K Blocks are about 1,5G of Root
> File System? Please tell me you have a seperated /var for log files.

As evidenced by the hostname, this is a test VM solely for
demonstration of this problem :-).

johnny