per jessen ueecomputerorg aaron kulkis wrote forces repartition entire drive dont feel lvm safe dont use lvm partitions rely filesystem holding lvm table remain uncorrupted corruption filesystem well destroy lvm partitioning suggestions something let expand filesystem systems must kept running 365x24 lvm evms actually used quite lot solve real problem similar systems use eg aix hpux 10 years per jessen zürich thu 07 aug 2008 044417 0100 opensuse lvmevms ext3 check forced frustration