From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <44882ED2.4050806@alienworld.org> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 16:06:10 +0200 From: Alen Salamun MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Right way to resize LVM Volume on SAN? References: <4487E578.2060202@alienworld.org> <20060608094246.GA2775@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20060608094246.GA2775@redhat.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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" To: mauelshagen@redhat.com, LVM general discussion and development Thank you. I read that already. And since it only says: "Expand the PV on /dev/sda1 AFTER enlarging the partition with fdisk" my question is related on part of enlarging partition with fdisk. Do I have to do it in described way (delete, create new with extended last sector) to preserve data or is there any other "less destructive look-a-like" way? Best regards Heinz Mauelshagen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 10:53:12AM +0200, Alen Salamun wrote: >> Hello All! >> >> I have read all the archives, HOWTO etc. but I don't seem to find the >> definitive guide to do it correctly. >> >> My diskspace in Linux is on SAN. The last partition (/dev/sda3) is LVM, >> ext3 and it represents my /home. Now I expanded the SAN volume and I >> would like to add this additional space to this last LVM partition. >> >> I already see larger disk space with fdisk. AFAIK I have now two >> options. Either I create new partition (for example /dev/sda4) and >> pvcreate it and add it to Logical Volume or I can resize existing >> /dev/sda3 since it is the last partition and I can resize it to new end >> sector. >> >> I would prefer resizing existing partition. So I should make backup, >> delete existing partition /dev/sda3. make new partition with new end >> sector and same start sector and do pvresize, lvresize on it right? >> >> Is there any other way to do it? It is after all quite something to >> delete existing live partiton and hope it still work after resize :) > > man pvresize > >> Thank you! >> >> _______________________________________________ >> linux-lvm mailing list >> linux-lvm@redhat.com >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm >> read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ >