From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 5 03:13:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E63216A4CE for ; Mon, 5 Jul 2004 03:13:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB27143D2F for ; Mon, 5 Jul 2004 03:13:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) id i653DkNt016296; Sun, 4 Jul 2004 22:13:46 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 22:13:46 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Stephan van Beerschoten Message-ID: <20040705031345.GL6574@dan.emsphone.com> References: <40E8552C.7030204@whacky.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40E8552C.7030204@whacky.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LVM ? (not vinum!) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 03:13:49 -0000 In the last episode (Jul 04), Stephan van Beerschoten said: > Is there an implementation of an LVM in FreeBSD ? Vinum is not > sufficient. I am looking for a true LVM where creating and resizing > volumes is a must. Something like Solaris Disksuite with > softpartitioning is something I could live with already, but it just > does not seem to exist. Vinum lets you resize volumes by concatenating plexes, and then you can run growfs to expand the filesystem into the new space. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com