linux-kernel - Re: shrinking root partition and using free space to create a block device

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Message-Id: <E1LV1wz-0001NS-3Z@be1.7eggert.dyndns.org>
Date:	Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:59:16 +0100
From:	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>
To:	Prateek Donni <prateek.donni@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: shrinking root partition and using free space to create a block  	device

Prateek Donni <prateek.donni@...il.com> wrote:

> We are intending to protect a set of user specified files using LVM
> mirroring where the protected space on which the user files are stored
> is mirrored on an LV on a different disk. Our problem is that for a
> user with a custom layout has installed linux with 2 partitons for
> swap and / and there is no other space available on the primary disk
> where we can store the files to be protected tht is mirrored across
> other disk, so we intend to allocate some space on the primary disk
> that can be used as a LV that is mirrored across an LV on different
> disk.
> What can be done in this situation?

Use a network share or a network block device.

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