From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m3KGh8r8032710 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:43:08 -0400 Received: from smtp01.atlngahp.sys.nuvox.net (smtp-out1.atlngahp.sys.nuvox.net [70.43.63.18]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m3KGgumj007927 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:42:56 -0400 Received: from smtp.media-brokers.com (70.43.81.99.nw.nuvox.net [70.43.81.99]) by smtp01.atlngahp.sys.nuvox.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m3KGgsGS025169 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:42:54 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.110] (sjester.atl.media-brokers.com [192.168.1.110]) by smtp.media-brokers.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CCFF836E8A9 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:42:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <480B728C.9010708@Media-Brokers.com> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:42:52 -0400 From: Charles Marcus MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Adding PVs to a group References: <48091663.2070404@Media-Brokers.com> <480A3291.7070702@Media-Brokers.com> <480AB63C.4070605@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <480AB63C.4070605@gmail.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: LVM general discussion and development On 4/19/2008, David Robinson (zxvdr.au@gmail.com) wrote: >> Since I'm no longer using the second partition at all, wouldn't it >> be simpler/cleaner to just delete the second partition entirely >> (using fdisk) and then just resize /dev/sdb1 to include the new free >> space using vgextend? >> >> Or will that not work? > That will work. You'll need to run pvresize after resizing the > partition, and you wouldn't need to use vgextend. Thanks for taking the time to hold my hand a little through this David... OT: this list seems a little on the dead side... is there a more active LVM oriented list that you are aware of? Anyway... Ok, so I guess the only question I have is - does it matter? Is my following evaluation correct? : It is much simpler - because I can do this without rebooting - to just do: vgextend vg2 /dev/sdb2, then lvextend -L+100G /dev/vg2/var, then resize_reiserfs -f /dev/vg2/var than it is to: delete /dev/sdb2, reboot, then resize /dev/sdb1, reboot, then run pvresize, *then* run lvextend... So, again - does it really matter? Is having my vg2 in one big LVM partition 'better' than having it consist of two different partitions? I'm thinking it does *not* matter, so will most likely go with the first/easiest option, unless you (or someone else) provides a good reason to take option 2... Thanks again, -- Best regards, Charles