From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 7 14:09:43 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05B6D106566B for ; Sun, 7 Sep 2008 14:09:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nicodache@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.177]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA56C8FC0A for ; Sun, 7 Sep 2008 14:09:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nicodache@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id j4so908598wah.3 for ; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:09:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition; bh=EN0fPTVJLM7PvLhWA8H0+3cuEW8TgRN54toI7N6+bcs=; b=F6PJRC9qFtQ4E7YmPZoe3swUSDOZ7cTq0NhtswIJsjXRVLl2Nl6fyz1ttfcqkWrGKw biroyki7e2+C/SVkJSZFu2AMONRe11JgFmKttiBQewGw3cRypD/Xs7LDIuzN7jJZBwN3 t5o9NWtVO7MV4l0Bio3H2NguiEpLQkadeuFZk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=AGLrvx7jjvR8C7apFS/KpvqNyo/dh3WdUBNtkSMYwp622BR+BrTORLl8YnzqqDaVDW OAq9FFkqG8IDvirGeJ066W+72WrzlFeOPEdHMhW5AJMlwfOZ1xH1xDO9JTXORylouKvJ 1d7zKRNxnErg4YP2YHpKzVof7PwYgXnV5HY9g= Received: by 10.114.177.9 with SMTP id z9mr11546045wae.178.1220796582317; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:09:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.135.14 with HTTP; Sun, 7 Sep 2008 07:09:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <82029aed0809070709n65f67632qcfd4cd3fbdda22f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 14:09:42 +0000 From: nicodache To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: LVM2 under FreeBSD ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:09:43 -0000 Hello all, I'd like to use something like LVM under FreeBSD, as I have a server running FBSD 7 and I don't know what space to give to what partition, and as I plan on installing postfix+courier-imap soon, I'd like to have some way to share the 235GB left on my drive between /home (legal torrents), and /var (www, mails, etc) I had a look at GEOM and (g)vinum, and none of them seem to accept resize of partition, while LVM (under linux) accept hotresizing of ext2/3 & ReiserFS filesystems. Do yoy know of any solution available as port that would provide me with the same features as LVM ? (resize of partitions while running, to adapt /var to my needs without copying, unmouting, resizing, rebooting, etc) Can LVM be used in FreeBSD ? can the default kernel read & write ext3 partitions ? I might try to install LVM on a primary partition. Thank you in advance for your input. -- nicodache