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From: Glen Harris <glen@gbrmpa.gov.au>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] How do I pvresize?
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 07:41:51 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <405F5D9F.6030003@gbrmpa.gov.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1079989821.13263.1.camel@adler>

I have already expanded the RAID slice by 250Gb, and now have a
/dev/sda which is 250Gb larger than it was before.

I now cannot remove that disk without either rebuilding the RAID
on the hot spare(back to square one) or destroying the RAID.

Please, can someone help me?

David Mohr wrote:
> I'm pretty new to LVM, so take my comment with a grain of salt.
> 
> Why do you need to resize the PV at all? If you need more space, create
> a new PV and add it to the LV, that should do the trick.
> 
> ~David
> 
> On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 15:01, Glen Harris wrote:
> 
>>We started running out of space on our backup server, so I bought a
>>couple of new 250Gb disks, added them to the 16 bay FC RAID array
>>and expanded the RAID, followed by the slice.
>>
>>I then went to expand the PV, and got a "Command not implemented yet."
>>message.
>>
>>This is a problem. This is a *BIG* problem.
>>
>>What are my options, short of destroying the volume and starting
>>from scratch?
>>_______________________________________________
>>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/
>>
> 
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-22 21:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-21 21:01 [linux-lvm] How do I pvresize? Glen Harris
2004-03-22 21:10 ` David Mohr
2004-03-22 21:41   ` Glen Harris [this message]
2004-03-23  9:37     ` Chris Laycock
2004-03-23 21:18       ` Glen Harris

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