From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l6K0GZfC007083 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:16:35 -0400 Received: from vms048pub.verizon.net (vms048pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.48]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l6K0GYZX018510 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:16:34 -0400 Received: from [192.168.2.102] ([71.100.89.137]) by vms048.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0JLG00628BF3KGNB@vms048.mailsrvcs.net> for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:16:15 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:16:14 -0400 From: Gerry Reno Message-id: <469FFECE.5020903@verizon.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: [linux-lvm] extending raw partition and logical partition 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="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@redhat.com I have 3 disk physical partitions: /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sda3 VolGroup02 uses physical volume /dev/sda2. I needed some more space on my logical partition /dev/VolGroup02/LogVol00 (only LV in Group) so I went ahead and deleted /dev/sda3 which left a bunch of free space. So then I went into fdisk and removed /dev/sda2 and recreated it with the same starting cyl and made the new end cyl the same as the old /dev/sda3 so I should have all the space in both the old partitions. Rebooted, checked fdisk -l and sure enough it had all the space. But now when I do a vgdisplay I still don't see any FREE PE. It shows exactly the same as before I expanded the physical partition. So how can I expand the LV if there is no FREE PE?