resizing an lvm volume with setup-storage

Michael Tautschnig mt at debian.org
Thu Apr 8 16:02:48 CEST 2010


> 
> >
> >In this case, the problem is somewhat unrelated: The partitions don't seem to
> >fit on disk in this way. That is, there isn't sufficient space for 512 * 1024 *
> >1024 bytes before sda2.
> >
> >Was that layout created using setup-storage? Probably yes. What I do suspect is
> >some rounding issue, and, well this is the culprit: The partition has been
> >created such as to end at a cylinder boundary, which is considered for the final
> >disk layout, but not for intermediate checks.
> >
> My mistake, sorry.
> 
> I built the filesystem with setup-storage, using version FAI version
> 3.3.4 and for sda1 a size of '512', with no unit.
> And then ran 3.3.5-experimental2 to resize /usr, with the same size
> of '512' for sda1, which seems to give a different result.
> 
> I have done it again using a size of 512MiB, and it works as
> expected: the volume is resized, but the filesystem is not.
> 

Huch? Why is that expected behavior? Shouldn't everything be resized? Could you
paste the logs?

Thanks,
Michael

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