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Mounting a Samba share and moving my LVM pvolumes of / onto a losetup'ed file on it, while running the system. Bass ackwards.
Good grief. Why?
I needed to redo partitions, but didn't want to reboot.
That's not even a bad idea then.
One of my machines has a boot partition that's a bit too small, on an otherwise LVM setup.
I'd recommend a Linux installer on a memory stick, instead. It's bound to have less network lag.
Nah, it'll be fine.
I might have a large enough USB SSD laying around some where. I could probably use that instead.
Does your FS support online resizing? EXT4 doesn't, so you'd have to use an installer stick.
Be super careful about partition sizes. I once tried to shrink my FS to an exact size, then shrink the LV to the same size - it ended up corrupting my FS. After that time, I started undersizing the FS, then resizing LV, finally expanding the FS again.
Have backups.
Yeah. I mainly use btrfs; it supports online growing and shrinking.
I know. I have done plenty of same device partition resizing. I know the pit falls, and for safety shrink the FS to below what the LV is going to be.
Thanks for the reminder. I've been meaning to set up snapshot backups for this machine using rsnapshot as an experiment. I mainly use Dirvish
I use rsync with a custom shell script to manage the number of incremental copies. You'll probably prefer something less janky.
That sounds pretty much like what Dirvish and rsnapshot do. Both wrap rsync.
Did it work? There's a huge chance of data corruption if you are copying the disk of a running system.
It didn't, but due to unrelated reasons. The root FS was mounted r/w, so the regular IO eventually overwhelmed the network's ability to copy stuff.
But no worries, a reboot later, with unmounted FS, I finished the same thing.
Copying the disk of a running system appears to be fine in LVM. Copying is done block-by-block, and the only thing it has to do to make it atomic is: in case of a conflict (writing into a block that's being copied right now), postpone writing to a block until it's copied, then finish the write in the new location. Or else, abort the copy, finish the write, then copy again.