Re: how to add a new data partition

Google is your friend here... Try these:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-lvm/
http://www.gweep.net/~sfoskett/linux/lvmlinux.html
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/04/27/managing-disk-space-with-lvm.html
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch27_:_Expanding_Disk_Capacity
http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/raid-lvm.php

On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 16:20 -0800, Karthikeyan Sundaram wrote:
> Tom,
>
> Thanks for your reply. I am new to postgres. What is LVM? and how should
> I use it. Can you guide me?.
>
> Regards
> skarthi
>
>
> >From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
> >To: Phillip Smith <phillip(dot)smith(at)weatherbeeta(dot)com(dot)au>
> >CC: Karthikeyan Sundaram <skarthi98(at)hotmail(dot)com>,
> >pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
> >Subject: Re: [ADMIN] how to add a new data partition Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007
> >17:59:51 -0500
> >
> >Phillip Smith <phillip(dot)smith(at)weatherbeeta(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> > > Perhaps a LVM group would be appropriate in this situation if you have
> > > the luxury of being able to implement that somehow...
> >
> >Indeed, the existence of LVM and similar tools is exactly why we don't
> >deem it pressing to come up with Oracle-like tablespace management.
> >If you want a tablespace to span multiple physical volumes, use LVM.
> >The Postgres project tries to avoid re-inventing perfectly good wheels ...
> >
> > regards, tom lane
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