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From: James Hawtin <oolon@ankh.org>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Resizing a logical volume which is mounted (at	/home)
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:03:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F17EA88.5000508@ankh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALe_PVk8jzZnpb5HRKfuXj7KAXqERw7BEahLMND3A1tkT-Ts_A@mail.gmail.com>

Kiran Rao wrote:
> Thanks for the advice Jess.
>
> Actually I am to blame for this. I did not properly understand the LVM
> concept before doing this partitioning. I have lots of free space on
> disk but that is *outside* the VG. Only later did I realize that the
> whole point of having VGs is to have some free space *within* them!
>
>   
Well that is easy then, if they free space is directly after your 
current PV, you can just extend the partition in the partition table 
then use PV resize to grow (cleaner but tricker),.

The Second thing "Easily" way you could do is create a new partition 
using the free space, then create a PV on that, then extend the volume 
group to also use that partition. Simplez

James

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-19 10:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-16 13:06 [linux-lvm] Resizing a logical volume which is mounted (at /home) Kiran Rao
2012-01-17 14:36 ` Males, Jess
2012-01-19  2:50   ` Kiran Rao
2012-01-19  5:43     ` Stuart D Gathman
2012-01-19 10:03     ` James Hawtin [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-01-16 13:21 Kiran Rao
2012-01-17 18:15 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2012-01-18  2:45   ` Kiran Rao

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