Subj : Re: Back on Track / Beta
To   : POINDEXTER FORTRAN
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Wed Jan 08 2025 09:37:00

>  ne> I expect your VPS isn't more than 50-100GB? You could easily offload
>  ne> the data, reload the OS with LVM and then restore. My VPS provider just
>  ne> creates with one filesystem and extends it so you just have to go into
>  ne> fdisk or whatever, to create a new partition table and then extend the
>  ne> filesystem. Easy enough.

> Back in the old days, we'd just create a 1gb file and leave it on the
> file system. Run out of space? Delete it and revel in your added disk
> space. Sort of a poor-man's LVM.  :)

My assumption here is that, once you reached that point, the 1gb would be a
good "buffer" but also the need to remove it would be a warning that you
needed to take additional action soon.  It doesn't seem to take much to eat
up 1gb pretty quick these days.


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