[mythtv-users] Partition resizing gone wrong - All storage groups gone (on the same partition)

[Sebastian Niehaus]

Am 12.09.2013 19:37, schrieb Stephen Worthington:
> On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:20:24 -0400, you wrote:

>> Stupidly, I resized my partitions today with a third party tool that had
>> previously worked before.

> Resizing partitions with data in them is always hazardous - if you
> value the data, you need to back it up first.  Which is always a
> problem with recordings, as they are usually huge files and need a
> huge drive to backup to.
> 
> What I would recommend is when creating a recording partition, use a
> separate drive and set the partition to use the entire drive, or at
> least all remaining space on the drive.  And then never resize it.

I use lvm, all partitions are on a volume group. Extending a volume
group and resizing the ext3 partitions went always smoothly (online,
without need to unmount them).

Very cool feature, I would recommend it (but backup is recommended even
more ...). PV are two RAID arrays, 4 hard disk drives need some space
however ...



Sebastian


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