From: Ben <bench@silentmedia.com>
To: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: [linux-lvm] Expanding volume groups to fill a growing disk
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 15:06:31 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602021457070.1276@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
I'm new to LVM, so maybe I'm missing something basic, but it seems like LVM2
makes it difficult to expand a VG. Or rather, it's easy if you want to just add
another disk to the group, but I have a hardware RAID card that supports online
expansion, and I'd like to use it.
Basically, I'm looking for a way to tell LVM "I know I partioned you on
/dev/sda2 to be 500GB; now that I've expanded the disk with the raid card, I
want to expand that volume group to fill the new space."
Do I have to use fdisk to make a new partition, and then use pvcreate followed
by vgextend? That sounds like it would work, but it seems like there should be a
cleaner way.
next reply other threads:[~2006-02-02 23:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-02 23:06 Ben [this message]
2006-02-02 23:25 ` [linux-lvm] Expanding volume groups to fill a growing disk Alasdair G Kergon
2006-02-02 23:40 ` Ben
2006-02-03 0:33 ` Szabo Akos
2006-02-03 1:10 ` Ben
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