Per Jessen wrote:
Aaron Kulkis wrote:
But it forces to repartition the entire drive, and I don't feel LVM is as safe. It's not, which is why I don't use it.
All LVM partitions rely on the filesystem holding the LVM table to remain uncorrupted. Corruption on *THAT* filesystem can very well destroy your LVM partitioning. :-/
Any other suggestions for something that will let me expand my filesystem on my systems that must be kept running 365x24?
None. And that's one of the only ways (the other being lots of Oracle or other database raw partitions) that I would advise using LVM without any reservations.
LVM and EVMS are both actually used quite a lot because they solve a real problem. Similar systems have been in use in e.g. AIX and HPUX for over 10 years.
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