[LUNI] Partition question

[Javier]

Well guess what?  I tried rebooting after going through cfdisk to add
the new partitions.  The kernel went into a panic.  It would not boot
up.  Unfortunately, I did not have a boot disk.  The fool that I am
I selected not to create the boot disk.  I won't do that again.

Any way it is a new box with nothing of value on it, so I guess you all
know what I will be doing tomorrow. 

"Keith T. Garner" wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 08:15:30, Martin Maney said:
> > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:47:32PM -0600, Martin Maney wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:39:14AM -0600, Keith T. Garner wrote:
> > > > If other partitions on that disk are being used when you make that new
> > > > partition you must reload.  Its one of those "the parent resource is busy"
> > > > kinda things.
> > >
> > > I'll have to test that later.  It just might fit, but I'm not positive.
> >
> > It's what Keith said.  I must have started mkfs (with -c, to keep it
> > harmlessly busy in hopes if catching it before it should do anything
> > untoward) on the partition that I'd deleted to make space for the others,
> > and didn't notice that it picked up that obsolete (and rather larger)
> > partition's specs.  I guess it's been so long since I was doing any
> > post-setup partitioning *on* *an* *active* *drive* that I've completely
> > forgotten about this.
> >
> > Okay, Keith, I'm buying it.  It helps that I did get the warning message on
> > the retest, though I'd swear I did not get that last time.
> 
> I haven't really looked into *why* it is, but its been my experiance over
> the years.  Good to have it verified :)
> 
> > Hmmm, what about LVM?  <ssh, poke, prod...>  Right, not being a low-level
> > physical device partition there's no reason a logical volume should be
> > subject to that silly limitation; nor does it seem to be so restricted.  I
> > am really liking this LVM stuff!
> 
> Actually, I don't know how it would work in an LVM.  I would assume when
> you add a new logical volume it should be instant as that has been the
> case on other LVM systems that i've used.  Especially considering you're
> more creating a partition on "software" then on hardware, I think it
> would work.
> 
> I'd move over to an LVM on a few of my machines, if it didn't require
> the headache of having to back everything up and blow it back out.
> Next time I set a machine up from scratch, I guess.
> 
> Keith
> 
> --
>    Keith T. Garner                                        kgarner at kgarner.com
>    The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so
>  certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.  --Bertrand Russell
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