From: John Drescher <drescherjm@gmail.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Cc: Scott Arthur <scott@scottatron.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Resizing underlying LVM partition after cloning to bigger disk
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 15:09:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimPQM1dABu=SwTLY6Z6p9mXz2O=T6ujskCMkpqj@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimg-wAqrWxGaj-HSFYazPV-GT7kWKfdYGst9tM3@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Scott Arthur <scott@scottatron.com> wrote:
> So I've just cloned a 1TB disk to a new 2TB disk using GNU ddresuce
> My partition table looks like this:
> Model: ATA WDC WD20EARS-00M (scsi)
> Disk /dev/sda: 2000GB
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
> Partition Table: msdos
> Number �Start � End � � Size � �Type � � �File system �Flags
> �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.
> Am I able to simply use parted to resize the partition before doing a
> pvresize etc?
> Or is it risky to resize the underlying LVM partition?
>
No. I do not believe this is risky.
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-03 20:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-03 5:25 [linux-lvm] Resizing underlying LVM partition after cloning to bigger disk Scott Arthur
2011-03-03 20:09 ` John Drescher [this message]
2011-03-03 20:18 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2011-03-04 8:41 ` Radu Rendec
2011-03-04 13:50 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2011-03-04 15:31 ` Phillip Susi
2012-03-05 23:07 ` Dan B.
2011-03-05 2:13 ` Scott Arthur
2011-03-05 15:11 ` Milan Broz
2011-03-06 12:24 ` Radu Rendec
2011-03-04 10:13 ` Lyn Rees
2011-03-04 12:19 ` Scott Arthur
2011-03-04 21:57 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2011-03-04 21:49 ` Koen Vermeer
2011-03-04 22:05 ` John Drescher
2011-03-04 22:07 ` John Drescher
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