From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Addiing new hdd to pv group Message-Id: <20020430154018.B4879@sistina.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: ; from stephan.budach@jvm.de on Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 04:30:59PM +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Tue Apr 30 08:42:02 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Stephan, recent LVM versions have a pvresize command, which can add the space of a grown partition/device to a physical volume stored in that partition. You can't combine seperate devices (like 2 different disks) this way. If hdd is a free disk, just run pvcreate on it and use vgextend to add it to one of your existing volume groups. On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 04:30:59PM +0200, Stephan Budach wrote: > Hi, >=20 > is it possible to expand an existing pv with an additional hdd, without= =20 > loosing data, of course? >=20 > Thanks, > Stephan > -- > Stephan Budach >=20 > Jung von Matt/Services >=20 > Glash=FCttenstrasse 38 20357 Hamburg > Telefon: +49-40-4321-1353 Fax: +49-40-4321-1114 > eMail: stephan.budach@jvm.de Internet: http://www.jvm.de >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html --=20 Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D= -=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-= =3D-=3D- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D= -=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-= =3D-=3D-