Re: [Hampshire] LVM, partitions and growing filesystems

James Ettle wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 17:27 +0100, Sean Gibbins wrote:
>
>> Not nearly as much fun, but definitely safer: have you given any thought
>> to simply buying a new disk and adding space that way?
>>
>
> It's a small notebook --- no' much room for an extra drive, Cap'n!
>

Ar, now you put it that way matey...

<sean is obviously still in Pirates of the Caribbean mode>
> The problem isn't really that I'm running out of space (indeed I've got
> that 500GB USB monster for playing around with VMs and backing up stuff,
> etc.), it's that the existing space on the notebook's own drive is
> partitioned inefficiently (as I moved my music collection from the NTFS
> system to my ext3 volume) and a just can't *stand* waste.
>

Hehe, been there, done that and even regretted it on the odd occasion.
However, I've learnt a fair bit from tweaking too, so swings and
roundabouts and all that.
>
>> Just out of interest, what are you running on XP? You could do what I
>> did and install VMWare Server to run the odd legacy Windows app,
>> although you need some memory and CPU to spare if you want to do that.
>>
>
> Coupla silly devices I have need it for firmware updates, etc. Some
> other programs don't run OK under Wine, either (e.g., Microsoft
> Update ;) ).
>

Fair enough James. I am sure it is doable, but I'd keep a known-good
copy of Knoppix handy just in case, as it's been the saving of me on
numerous jaunts that involved reinstalling grub and hacking /etc/fstab.

Sean