From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k07HHB115549 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 12:17:12 -0500 Received: from percy.comedia.it (percy.comedia.it [212.97.59.71]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k07HH29N029964 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 12:17:08 -0500 Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 18:16:51 +0100 From: Luca Berra Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Resizing a physical partition used in LVM Message-ID: <20060107171651.GC22663@percy.comedia.it> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@redhat.com On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 05:43:03PM -0800, James Lamanna wrote: >1) Stop LVM. >2) Extend /dev/sda4 to the end of the RAID with fdisk .... vgcfgbackup, edit the backup file by hand, vgcfgrestore .... >3) Start LVM >4) lvextend a logical partition to the end of the physical volume. > >Or do I have to create a new partition on the disk for this extra space? The latter is easier to achieve. L. -- Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \