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On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 5:05 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Koen Vermeer <koen@vermeer.tv> wrote:
>> On 03/03/2011 06:25 AM, Scott Arthur wrote:
>>> �1 � � �32.3kB �296MB � 296MB � primary � ext4 � � � � boot
>>> �2 � � �296MB � 1000GB �1000GB �extended
>>> �5 � � �296MB � 1000GB �1000GB �logical � � � � � � � �lvm
>>> I'm obviously wanting to expand the LVM partition to fill the
>>> remaining 1TB of space.
>>
>> I'm just a regular LVM user and maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but why
>> not simply add partition #2 as a physical volume? I thought that was one
>> of the advantages of LVM: not having to worry about that kind of thing.
>>
> LVM pvresize is safe. I have done this many times at work. Even with >
> 10TB physical volumes. There is one potential problem if your pv has 2
> metadata areas however it will inform you and in this case it will
> refuse to resize instead of causing breakage.
>

BTW, I did not mention but the fix for this is in the works.

John