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storaged-project / blivet

A python module for configuration of block devices
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Broken wiki links #979

Open brianjmurrell opened 3 years ago

brianjmurrell commented 3 years ago

Two of the three links at https://github.com/storaged-project/blivet/wiki are broken.

Where can documentation on the end-user capabilities of blivet[-gui] be found? Can it resize partitions and/or LVM LVs and everything that sits on top of them right up to and including the filesystem -- without data loss for example?

vojtechtrefny commented 3 years ago

I updated the broken link (and removed the second one), but we currently have only developer documentation for both blivet and blivet-gui so not really useful for users (I have some old and incomplete user documentation for blivet-gui, but that's not available online).

We unfortunately don't have a list of features or capabilities for blivet. But yes, we do support resizing of both logical volumes and partitions.

brianjmurrell commented 3 years ago

It seems that it's not as functional as it could/should be with live devices. I cannot seem to resize an ext4 filesystem on an LV for example. I can do that using CLI tools though.

Is my understanding above correct? If so, is more live functionality on the roadmap? Is there a roadmap that can be viewed anywhere?

vojtechtrefny commented 3 years ago

It seems that it's not as functional as it could/should be with live devices. I cannot seem to resize an ext4 filesystem on an LV for example. I can do that using CLI tools though.

Is my understanding above correct?

Yes, we unfortunately don't support resize for mounted devices even if the filesystem supports online resize. A lot of missing functionality in blivet is result of it starting as storage library for the Anaconda installer -- everything is unmounted during the installation.

If so, is more live functionality on the roadmap? Is there a roadmap that can be viewed anywhere?

We track some feature requests/enhancements here in the issues and we also have a TODO list, but there is a "real" roadmap for blivet.

vojtechtrefny commented 3 years ago

If so, is more live functionality on the roadmap?

I've realized I didn't actually answer this part of the question. Yes, we plan to add more options for "configuring" existing storage and support more filesystems in the future.