Hello, I need to install LVM (Physical volume) after OS installation (I have /dev/vda ... /dev/vda1 for boot and /dev/vda2). Standard procedure is to shrink /dev/vda2 and create a new lvm2 pv partition (by gparted live cd). Result is: /dev/vda1 ext4, /dev/vda2 ext4, /dev/vda3 lvm2 dev. QUESTION: Is it possible/stable enough (for running webhosting by ISPConfig) to just change /dev/vda2 original ext4 to lvm2 pv directly? Result would be: /dev/vda1 ext4, /dev/vda2 lvm2 dev. Thank you for your inputs ...
lvm is stable... I personally don't like it though... but there's nothing against using lvm as top layer, make partitions there and then format those to ext4, xfs, zfs or whatever you prefer
