Fedora and LVM
Fedora and LVM
Posted Nov 3, 2012 1:28 UTC (Sat) by agk (guest, #23332)In reply to: Fedora and LVM by Cato
Parent article: Fedora and LVM
> the lack of documentation and HOWTOs mentioning this option doesn't fill me with confidence.
The LVM HOWTO at tldp hasn't been updated for several years.
> I think that the LV size should be larger than the FS size by 2 x the LVM physical extent (PE) size. Is that correct?
No. Where did that idea come from? LVM doesn't reserve any space *inside* the LVs it creates! The filesystem can use the entire LV if it wants to.