Re: [linux-lvm] Right way to resize LVM Volume on SAN?

[Alen Salamun <alien@alienworld.org>]

Thank you. I read that already. And since it only says:

"Expand the PV on /dev/sda1 AFTER enlarging the partition with fdisk"

my question is related on part of enlarging partition with fdisk. Do I 
have to do it in described way (delete, create new with extended last 
sector) to preserve data or is there any other "less destructive 
look-a-like" way?

Best regards

Heinz Mauelshagen wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 10:53:12AM +0200, Alen Salamun wrote:
>> Hello All!
>>
>> I have read all the archives, HOWTO etc. but I don't seem to find the 
>> definitive guide to do it correctly.
>>
>> My diskspace in Linux is on SAN. The last partition (/dev/sda3) is LVM, 
>> ext3 and it represents my /home. Now I expanded the SAN volume and I 
>> would like to add this additional space to this last LVM partition.
>>
>> I already see larger disk space with fdisk. AFAIK I have now two 
>> options. Either I create new partition (for example /dev/sda4) and 
>> pvcreate it and add it to Logical Volume or I can resize existing 
>> /dev/sda3 since it is the last partition and I can resize it to new end 
>> sector.
>>
>> I would prefer resizing existing partition. So I should make backup, 
>> delete existing partition /dev/sda3. make new partition with new end 
>> sector and same start sector and do pvresize, lvresize on it right?
>>
>> Is there any other way to do it? It is after all quite something to 
>> delete existing live partiton and hope it still work after resize :)
> 
> man pvresize
> 
>> Thank you!
>>
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