Fedora and LVM [LWN.net]

Fedora and LVM

Posted Nov 3, 2012 18:14 UTC (Sat) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)
In reply to: Fedora and LVM by marcH
Parent article: Fedora and LVM

GParted can cover this fine including the Windows volume shrinking:

- shrink Windows volume
- move any partitions as required until the free space is next to the partition you want to enlarge
- drag the boundary of that partition to fill the free space
- hit Commit button
- come back some time later to find it's all done

For a desktop/laptop this can be done overnight, and is so much easier than having to mess with LVM (as I used to do, making copious notes on the right commands so I could remember them next time, since such rearrangements are not a weekly occurrence.)

LVM is great for other use cases but unless you have a very high uptime requirement for your PCs, and are expert in LVM, it's not for laptops/desktops.

Of course if there was a Gparted-like tool for LVM, this might change the picture - why reboot into Gparted if an "LVM edit" GUI tool does the same thing?

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Fedora and LVM

Posted Nov 4, 2012 11:28 UTC (Sun) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

> move any partitions as required until the free space is next to the partition you want to enlarge

The only reason you find this "easier" (I clearly don't) is because GParted has a graphical interface while LVM has not (yet?).

To the best tool is quite often the one you are the most familiar with.

When repartitioning I trust nothing and no one (neither GParted nor myself). So I much prefer spending 10 minutes googling and reading the LVM man pages and eventually do something conceptually simpler and that involves 5 or 10 times fewer operations, i.e, 5 or 10 times less chances for something to break.