From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from o.ww.redhat.com (vpnuser2.stuttgart.redhat.com [172.16.4.2]) by pobox.stuttgart.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i5K8oaqd020862 for ; Sun, 20 Jun 2004 10:50:37 +0200 Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 10:50:37 +0200 From: Heinz Mauelshagen Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] How to extend a root LVM volume? Message-ID: <20040620085037.GD3519@redhat.com> References: <40D1CF06.7030202@miksis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40D1CF06.7030202@miksis.com> Reply-To: mauelshagen@redhat.com, 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" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: LVM general discussion and development I am guessing that rescue CD has a restrictive filter setup which prevents vgscan from seeing the drives. On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 10:04:06AM -0700, Mark Miksis wrote: > I'm trying to extend a root LVM. I'm using LVM2 on FC2. Here is what > I've tried: > > I ran lvextend when the system was booted normally and the volumes were > mounted. This worked as expected and lvdisplay properly shows the new > larger size. > > Then I booted into the FC2 rescue CD and instructed it to NOT search for > and mount Fedora installations. I then ran: > # resize2fs /dev/Volume00/LogVol00 > I don't have the specific error, but it basically says that the > specified volume doesn't exist. Indeed if I look in /dev, my volume > group and volumes are nowhere to be found. > > At that point I tried: > # lvm > lvm> vgscan > After only about 1 second, it responds that no volumes are found. > > I also tried rebooting from the CD and letting it mount my > installations. In this case, the volume and volume groups are properly > discovered and mounted. However, if I try to unmount the volume, it > always responds with "device busy". > > Is this a problem with how the FC2 rescue disk scans for volumes? Any > help would be appreciated. > _______________________________________________ > 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/ -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat GmbH Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@RedHat.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-