Infinite Improbability Driver

This is a repost of one of my old Blog Postings from 2005, It’s still current and applies to linux logical volume management. After the jump is the instructions on how to replace a member disc of an LVM2 volume group with a larger one..

I’ve performed this replacement more than a few times, getting rid of small, dying, or poorly performing disks, over the past few years I’ve gotten rid of any disks that aren’t Seagate. I’ve been really impressed with the Seagate drives, they’ve been fast, reliable, and I haven’t had any issues with them.
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I’m trying to update Prelude, but I needed a newer version of GnuTLS, to try and get GnuTLS-Devel building, I updated GetText, which broke everything because of the system ABI change (in a stable release of FreeBSD I might add).

20070318:
AFFECTS: users of devel/gettext (ie: YOU)
AUTHOR: ade@FreeBSD.org

As a result of the upgrade to gettext-0.16.1, the shared library version of libintl has changed, so you will need to rebuild all ports that depend on gettext (ie: most of them, sorry):

portupgrade -rf gettext

After getting this done, VIM was failing to build because of a GTK+ 1.2 dependency that was failing.. After a quick google search, I came across the following blog post: Tequila Fish: HowTo Install Vim from Ports without X-Windows which was a nice polished fix that will prevent VIM from trying to install the gVim GUI ever again.

With VIM installed and happy, and the system rebuilt (after 90mins of recompiling) things seem to be back to normal…

Now to see if I can install Prelude again..