how to increase existing partition ?

[Tim Writer]

lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org (Lennart Sorensen) writes:

> On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 12:53:43AM -0500, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> > - if you're using lvm and/or software raid you might wish to keep /usr
> >   separate ... at least lvm on / isn't highly recommended from what I hear.
> 
> I can't think of a reason / can't be lvm, other than it can't be
> unmounted for resizing work and such (although some filesystems don't
> need it to be.)  Booting from it can be a pain, so perhaps /boot should
> be seperate.  I rather like having / on software raid1.

/ can be LVM -- I have a Debian woody system configured that way -- but it is
a bit of a pain.  At least Debian woody doesn't support LVM / out of the box,
you have to customize mkinitrd.  On the positive side, KNOPPIX can recover
LVM and RAID configurations without any prior knowledge of the configuration.

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