OT: redhat

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 11:42:50AM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2004, Fairlight wrote:
> >Confusious (Jay Ashworth) say:
> >> On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 09:43:13AM -0500, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> >> > Sure you can add pieces and expand a filesystem anytime you want
> >> > >if< you have the right OS. :-) :-) :-) AIX is the only one that
> >> > I know of that does that.  :-(
> >> 
> >> SuSE 9, XFS.
> >
> >Filesystem is not the question.  PHYSICAL PARTITION (as in...think fdisk,
> >folks) is the issue.  I'm talking about needing to join two disparately
> >located partitions into one partition and expanding the fs that's on one of
> >them to include the space on another.  
> 
> The Linux LVM (Logical Volume Manager) or FreeBSD vinum provides this
> capability.  There's an interesting feature in thsi month's Linux Journal
> on the unionfs which provides some very interesting capabilities joining
> multiple file systems types including file system snapshots, software
> versioning, and others which I'm not sure I understand yet.

Forgive me; of course this is a two parter.

LVM lets you add more physical partitions on to a logical one; XFS lets
you enlarge an active filesystem to take advantage of the new space.

Cheers,
-- jra
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