Re: [Hampshire] LVM Unmounting

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Author: Hugo Mills
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] LVM Unmounting

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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.

> I'm pretty certain I've grown LVM partitions
> before without bothering to unmount them, but have a sneaky
> suspicion that may have been with ReiserFS.


Hugo.

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