[linux-lvm] filesystem does not reflect new LV size

[linux-lvm] filesystem does not reflect new LV size

[Vladimir G. Ivanovic]

I must be doing something wrong on my Red Hat 7.3 system with a stock
2.4.18-4 kernel.

I created a logical volume on one physical disk, /dev/hde1, added it to
a (new) volume group, and I mounted it. No problems so far.

  # df /dev/ds/lvol1
  Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
  /dev/ds/lvol1        156882796  90418200  58495420  61% /mnt/ds

I then created another physical volume on another physical drive

  # pvcreate /dev/hda1

and then extended my volume group with the new physical volume

  # vgextend ds /dev/hda1

Then I extended the logical volume to it's maximum size on both physical
volumes.

  # lvextend -l +168   /dev/ds/lvol1 /dev/hde1
  # lvextend -l +14308 /dev/ds/lvol1 /dev/hda1

I don't see any errors when I query the volume group (appended below).
But I can't get the mounted file system to recognize the new size.

  # df /dev/ds/lvol1
  Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
  /dev/ds/lvol1        156882796  90418200  58495420  61% /mnt/ds

I've dismounted /dev/ds/lvol1 and remounted it. Still no change.

What am I missing?

Thanks.

--- Vladimir

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Vladimir G. Ivanovic                        http://leonora.org/~vladimir
2770 Cowper St.                                         vladimir@acm.org
Palo Alto, CA 94306-2447                                 +1 650 678 8014

--------
# vgdisplay -v
--- Volume group ---
VG Name               ds
VG Access             read/write
VG Status             available/resizable
VG #                  0
MAX LV                256
Cur LV                1
Open LV               1
MAX LV Size           255.99 GB
Max PV                256
Cur PV                2
Act PV                2
VG Size               208.55 GB
PE Size               4 MB
Total PE              53388
Alloc PE / Size       53388 / 208.55 GB
Free  PE / Size       0 / 0
VG UUID               uYpJV8-FqdY-n7sW-il1A-v8Np-dvhk-yDCuPp

--- Logical volume ---
LV Name                /dev/ds/lvol1
VG Name                ds
LV Write Access        read/write
LV Status              available
LV #                   1
# open                 1
LV Size                208.55 GB
Current LE             53388
Allocated LE           53388
Allocation             next free
Read ahead sectors     1024
Block device           58:0


--- Physical volumes ---
PV Name (#)           /dev/hde1 (1)
PV Status             available / allocatable
Total PE / Free PE    39080 / 0

PV Name (#)           /dev/hda1 (2)
PV Status             available / allocatable
Total PE / Free PE    14308 / 0



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--- Vladimir

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Vladimir G. Ivanovic                        http://leonora.org/~vladimir
2770 Cowper St.                                         vladimir@acm.org
Palo Alto, CA 94306-2447                                 +1 650 678 8014

Re: [linux-lvm] filesystem does not reflect new LV size

[Joe Thornber]

Resizing is always done in two steps, these steps are done in a
different order depending whether you are extending or reducing.

Extending:

i) Resize the LV (lvextend)
ii) Resize the filesystem (eg, ext2resize, resize_reiserfs)

Reducing:

i) Resize filesystem.
ii) Resize the LV (lvreduce)


There is a tool called e2fsadm provided in LVM1 which performs both of
these steps iff you are using an ext2 filesystem.

- Joe

Re: [linux-lvm] filesystem does not reflect new LV size

[Vladimir G. Ivanovic]

Joe Thornber writes: 

  > Resizing is always done in two steps, these steps are done in a
  > different order depending whether you are extending or reducing.
  > 
  > Extending:
  > 
  > i) Resize the LV (lvextend)
  > ii) Resize the filesystem (eg, ext2resize, resize_reiserfs)
  > 
  > Reducing:
  > 
  > i) Resize filesystem.
  > ii) Resize the LV (lvreduce)
  > 
  > 
  > There is a tool called e2fsadm provided in LVM1 which performs both of
  > these steps iff you are using an ext2 filesystem.

Thanks! I assume that ext2resize also works for ext3 filesystems. Do I
have to do anything special about the journal file, which is a hidden
inode.

--- Vladimir

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Vladimir G. Ivanovic                        http://leonora.org/~vladimir
2770 Cowper St.                                         vladimir@acm.org
Palo Alto, CA 94306-2447                                 +1 650 678 8014

Re: [linux-lvm] filesystem does not reflect new LV size

[Tim]

Hey, out of curiosity, are there folks out there who have mounted an
ext3 filesystem as ext2, resized it, rebuilt the journal, and had good
success with the process?  At one point I was twiddling with this, but
instead I spec'd a great big RAID to migrate to and cp'ed it directly.
Unfortunately now that one is filling up and it's as big as Promise
currently makes, so I kind of have to make me a decision...

I'd hate to convert my monster volumes to XFS for this sort of thing
(and AFAIK, ReiserFS is not totally stable with NFS, so that's out of
the question -- anyways, I don't want to take it down if I needn't).
Mostly though, ext3 has been good to us, and I know RedHat will support
both ext3 and LVM in a pinch.  Since we use RedHat this is a big plus.

Thanks for any input,

--Tim



Quoth Joe Thornber:
> Resizing is always done in two steps, these steps are done in a
> different order depending whether you are extending or reducing.
> 
> Extending:
> 
> i) Resize the LV (lvextend)
> ii) Resize the filesystem (eg, ext2resize, resize_reiserfs)
> 
> Reducing:
> 
> i) Resize filesystem.
> ii) Resize the LV (lvreduce)
> 
> 
> There is a tool called e2fsadm provided in LVM1 which performs both of
> these steps iff you are using an ext2 filesystem.
> 
> - Joe
> 
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     Let's not bicker and argue about who killed who.

Re: [linux-lvm] filesystem does not reflect new LV size

[Vladimir G. Ivanovic]

Actually, my question should have been about resize2fs because that's
what I have on my system.

--- Vladimir

--------
Vladimir G. Ivanovic                        http://leonora.org/~vladimir
2770 Cowper St.                                         vladimir@acm.org
Palo Alto, CA 94306-2447                                 +1 650 678 8014

"VGI" == Vladimir G Ivanovic <vladimir@acm.org> writes:

  VGI> Joe Thornber writes: 

  >> Resizing is always done in two steps, these steps are done in a
  >> different order depending whether you are extending or reducing.
  >> 
  >> Extending:
  >> 
  >> i) Resize the LV (lvextend)
  >> ii) Resize the filesystem (eg, ext2resize, resize_reiserfs)
  >> 
  >> Reducing:
  >> 
  >> i) Resize filesystem.
  >> ii) Resize the LV (lvreduce)
  >> 
  >> 
  >> There is a tool called e2fsadm provided in LVM1 which performs both of
  >> these steps iff you are using an ext2 filesystem.

  VGI> Thanks! I assume that ext2resize also works for ext3 filesystems. Do I
  VGI> have to do anything special about the journal file, which is a hidden
  VGI> inode.

Re: [linux-lvm] filesystem does not reflect new LV size

[Vladimir G. Ivanovic]

Well, I ran with the bit between my teeth.... (/dev/ds/lvol1 is my LV)

  # tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/ds/lvol1
  # fsck.ext2 -f /dev/ds/lvol1
  # resize2fs /dev/ds/lvol1
  # tune2fs -j /dev/ds/lvol1
  # mount /dev/ds/lvol1 /mnt/ds
  # df /mnt/ds

--- Vladimir

--------
Vladimir G. Ivanovic                        http://leonora.org/~vladimir
2770 Cowper St.                                         vladimir@acm.org
Palo Alto, CA 94306-2447                                 +1 650 678 8014

Re: [linux-lvm] filesystem does not reflect new LV size

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

>>>>> "VGI" == Vladimir G Ivanovic <vladimir@acm.org> writes:

VGI> Well, I ran with the bit between my teeth....

I didn't have problems running resize2fs (actually e2fsadm to change
both the LV and filesystem in one go) on plain ext3 without playing
with the journal.  You have to unmount it as ext2online doesn't work,
but I was able to grow and shrink an umounted ext3 filesystem
containing data with no problems.  Was I just lucky?

 - J<

Re: [linux-lvm] filesystem does not reflect new LV size

[Wolfgang Weisselberg]

Hi, Tim!

Tim (tim@connectlive.com) wrote 57 lines:

> Hey, out of curiosity, are there folks out there who have mounted an
> ext3 filesystem as ext2, resized it, rebuilt the journal, and had good
> success with the process?

Why would you *mount* a filesystem and resize it, when it's
safer and easier done unmounted?

Simply umount, resize2fs (use e2fsadm as a wrapper, if you are
LVMming), mount it and off you go.  To ext2, .journal is but
another file, AFAIK, and if you umounted cleanly, nothing will
have to be played back, AFAIK.

Works well enough for me, when I use it.

-Wolfgang