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<div dir="ltr">I'm also learning the hard way that not having used LVM means I can't make a snapshot to stabilize the file system during a backup.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">-derek</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Sent on my mobile. Please forgive any typos.</div></div>
</div><br><div id="htc_header">----- Reply message -----<br>From: "James Sumners" <james.sumners@gmail.com><br>To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale@ale.org><br>Subject: [ale] ISCSI array on virtual machine<br>Date: Thu, Apr 28, 2016 3:07 PM</div></div><br><div dir="ltr"><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;">On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 10:34 AM, Todor Fassl <fassl.tod@gmail.com> wrote:
> But, Jim, what I'm asking is why bother carving it up at all? What benefit
> is there in that?
That's my view as well. But my director thinks otherwise. So I do it
to keep him from hounding me about it.
> I get that if you use LVM and ext4 file systems, you can resize the
> partitions. But if I made the whole 8T one big partition, I'd never have any
> reason to resize it.
Never say never. Increasing that 8TB to 16TB is easy with LVM. It's
not so easy if you decided you didn't need LVM at the start.
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