[mythtv-users] CentOS vs Fedora, RAID vs LVM

[Mike Perkins]

Mike Holden wrote:
> Miroslav Suchý wrote:
>> Jean-Yves Avenard napsal(a):
>>> You can grow the FS without even unmounting the disk...
>> You can do that with ext3 too:
>> resize2fs /dev/sda1
> 
> You can, but on the next reboot you get bitten by an unexpected full fsck
> of the partition. This is quite a pain and a long wait when the partition
> is a 750Gb partition :-(
> 
> This is because the resize doesn't update the backup master blocks, just
> the main one.
Ouch. Mind you, if I was making that kind of change, I think I'd reboot 
afterwards just on general principles. Odd things happen at boot time that don't 
happen after, and I'd want to make sure my system would come up properly after, 
say, a power blackout.

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Mike Perkins