On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 18:10:51 +0100 (+0100), Hugo Mills wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 06:01:36PM +0100, Samuel Penn wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Quick LVM question - is it necessary to unmount an ext3 partition
> > before growing it?
>
> No. resize2fs will do online resizing for you.
FYI on redhat you need resize4fs if it's an ext4 volume, resize2fs for
ext2 or ext3. Dunno why they needed a new binary - Debian works using
resize2fs for both.
lvresize -L +1G /dev/rootvg/varlv
resize2fs /dev/rootvg/varlv
Adrian
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