From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (ext-mx09.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.110.13]) by int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n9NFcusV013419 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:38:56 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.157]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n9NFcdT3005300 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:38:40 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id d23so266057fga.9 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:38:39 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:38:39 +0200 Message-ID: <29ae894c0910230838o755803d9td6211d953ac343e5@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] How do I use free PE? From: brem belguebli Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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="utf-8" To: LVM general discussion and development Hi, your underlying disk /dev/sdb2 cannot be part of more than one volume group, it'll have to be under VolGroup00. When you say I don't want to add it to VolGroup00, you may be confusing some concepts. You certainly don't want to add free space under / (which is a filesystem) on top of a Logical Volume (LogVol0) which itself is built on top of your VolGroup00, isn't it ? If so, you can create a new Logical volume (let's say logvolgeneralstorage, man lvcreate) on top of VolGroup00 which will be mounted on /otherstroragethanslash. Everything is in the man pages (lvcreate, lvs, lvdisplay, mke[234]fs, fstab) 2009/10/23 Rod Rook : > I've installed Fedora 10 on a 250GB SATA hard drive. > I want to use the unused portion (free PE= 4378, about 140GB), but I don't > know how I go about doing it. > I don't want to add it to VolGroup00, but I want it made accessible as a > general storage space. > >> >> [root@localhost Documents]# pvdisplay /dev/sdb2 > > � --- Physical volume --- > � PV Name�������������� /dev/sdb2 > � VG Name�������������� VolGroup00 > � PV Size�������������� 232.69 GB / not usable 4.58 MB > � Allocatable���������� yes > � PE Size (KByte)������ 32768 > � Total PE������������� 7446 > � Free PE�������������� 4376 > � Allocated PE��������� 3070 >> >> � PV UUID�������������� DBf14Y-SLFe-cwZy-m1O7-3Jw9-Xhdf-3u42iX >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ >