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View Poll Results: Which Is Your Preferred Linux File System?
BtrFS 19 5.52%
ext2 5 1.45%
ext3 26 7.56%
ext4 230 66.86%
FAT32 5 1.45%
JFS 12 3.49%
Lustre 0 0%
OCFS2 1 0.29%
ReiserFS 6 1.74%
XFS 24 6.98%
ZFS 16 4.65%
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Old 11-26-2014, 06:40 PM   #91
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I've been using XFS since 2010, very happy with it!
 
Old 11-27-2014, 04:59 PM   #92
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ext4, while implementing LVM with it
 
Old 11-27-2014, 05:47 PM   #93
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Me too.
It would be nice if I could reduce the size of a LVM volume in situ without destroying the underlying ext4 filesystem.
 
Old 11-27-2014, 06:42 PM   #94
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Increasing the volume size is way easier and less risky than reducing it. When reducing a LVM volume there has to be enough space available to do it without causing corruption which I read from many articles and videos online.

It's best to practice LVM in a virtual machine and practice both increasing and reducing a LVM volume before implementing it on the main system.
 
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Old 11-27-2014, 06:58 PM   #95
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Me too.
It would be nice if I could reduce the size of a LVM volume in situ without destroying the underlying ext4 filesystem.
Reducing a LVM volume is more risky than increasing it. When reducing a LVM volume, there must be some free space available to be done correctly, otherwise corruption can happen. This is mentioned in the many articles online.

It's wise to practice reducing LVM volumes in a virtual machine to get a hang of it. And once the process is understood, it can be implemented on the main system.

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Old 11-28-2014, 08:59 AM   #96
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jfs... because ibm is god and re-sizing your file system is heresy
Why is resizing your file-system heresy?

when I have set-up file-systems in Linux, AIX or HPUX I actually use LVM commands to create the PV (Physical Volume) followed by VG (Volume Group) then the LV (Logical Volume) and then an only then I create the file-system. Sure there are different but logical commands to do this in AIX but the concepts remain the same.

Depending on the requirements resizing a file-system is fairly easy under LVM and is supported by ext3, ext4, BtrFS, ZFS as well as JFS and VxFS. Of course it usually is better to have the logical volume and its file-system the right size to start with but on occasion it may be necessary to do a resize (shrinking is possible as well) such as the LV and file-system associated with a database needs to be increased in size and that I have seen quite a few times.
 
Old 11-28-2014, 09:28 AM   #97
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Increasing the volume size is very easy - but volumes sit on physical space which is finite!

I've come to the conclusion that data backup, delete volume, recreate reduced volume, restore data from the backup is the only reliable way of performing a reduction in volume size.
 
Old 11-28-2014, 12:20 PM   #98
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Increasing the volume size is very easy - but volumes sit on physical space which is finite!

I've come to the conclusion that data backup, delete volume, recreate reduced volume, restore data from the backup is the only reliable way of performing a reduction in volume size.
I agree that increasing the volume size is much easier as I stated. I haven't reduce any volumes thus far, but I do agree, it's wise to backup the data first before doing a volume reduction.

I've bookmarked this article which is very detailed in LVM management especially when reducing the LVM volume(s)
http://www.tecmint.com/extend-and-reduce-lvms-in-linux/
 
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Old 11-28-2014, 03:23 PM   #99
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[QUOTE=donaldm;5276324]Why is resizing your file-system heresy?

Because the user had to find a good apology for his favourite filesystem not supporting it (well).
That's actually one of the reasons I never even tried jfs (lacking feature). (So I'm probably agnostic or even pagan to this user. )
 
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I've bookmarked this article which is very detailed in LVM management especially when reducing the LVM volume(s)
http://www.tecmint.com/extend-and-reduce-lvms-in-linux/
That's an excellent article on LVM.
 
Old 12-05-2014, 09:10 PM   #101
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EXT4 for linux and UFS or ZFS for the BSD's
 
  


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