From: James Hawtin <oolon@ankh.org>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] N00b Question: Logical Volume without a Logical Volume Group ?
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:39:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EB1722F.206@ankh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <825955434.1696549.1320246372085.JavaMail.root@sz0126a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net>
Dan White wrote:
>
> I just experienced that.
>
> I had to reboot the machine to "see" the expanded LUN.
> I used fdisk to make a partition out of the LUN expansion, but I had to reboot again before I could do anything further.
> After the second reboot, I was able to make a PV out of the new partition, roll it into the existing VG and then expand the two test LV's I had previously created to utilize the new elbow room.
>
> This is on a RHEL 5.7 system.
>
> Is there a way to do this without the rebooting ?
>
>
Assuming the device is sda then
|echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/device/rescan|
However if that fails (and it can) only a reboot or removing the disk
driver module and reinstalling it will scan it correctly (possible if
you have a mix of local and san disk) however probably a reboot is easiler.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-02 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-01 18:39 [linux-lvm] N00b Question: Logical Volume without a Logical Volume Group ? Dan White
2011-11-01 18:45 ` Digimer
2011-11-01 19:13 ` Dan White
2011-11-01 19:20 ` Digimer
2011-11-01 19:51 ` Dan White
2011-11-02 14:02 ` Mark H. Wood
2011-11-01 21:09 ` Ray Morris
2011-11-02 10:18 ` James Hawtin
2011-11-02 11:41 ` Marek Podmaka
2011-11-02 13:37 ` James Hawtin
2011-11-02 14:18 ` Mark H. Wood
2011-11-02 14:50 ` Marek Podmaka
2011-11-02 14:56 ` James Hawtin
2011-11-02 15:06 ` Dan White
2011-11-02 16:39 ` James Hawtin [this message]
2011-11-02 17:30 ` Eugene Vilensky
2011-11-02 18:23 ` Dan White
2011-11-02 18:41 ` Dan White
2011-11-02 17:57 ` Galen Seitz
2011-11-03 6:53 ` Marek Podmaka
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