From: Rod Rook <rod.rook@gmail.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] How do I use free PE?
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:59:18 -0500 [thread overview]
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Thank you for your reply. I was thinking of using Gnome parted, but I wanted
to check to see if it can be used with LVM2 partitions.
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:38 AM, brem belguebli
<brem.belguebli@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi,
>
> your underlying disk /dev/sdb2 cannot be part of more than one volume
> group, it'll have to be under VolGroup00.
>
> When you say I don't want to add it to VolGroup00, you may be
> confusing some concepts.
>
> You certainly don't want to add free space under / (which is a
> filesystem) on top of a Logical Volume (LogVol0) which itself is built
> on top of your VolGroup00, isn't it ?
>
> If so, you can create a new Logical volume (let's say
> logvolgeneralstorage, man lvcreate) on top of VolGroup00 which will be
> mounted on /otherstroragethanslash.
>
> Everything is in the man pages (lvcreate, lvs, lvdisplay, mke[234]fs,
> fstab)
>
> 2009/10/23 Rod Rook <rod.rook@gmail.com>:
> > I've installed Fedora 10 on a 250GB SATA hard drive.
> > I want to use the unused portion (free PE= 4378, about 140GB), but I
> don't
> > know how I go about doing it.
> > I don't want to add it to VolGroup00, but I want it made accessible as a
> > general storage space.
> >
> >>
> >> [root@localhost Documents]# pvdisplay /dev/sdb2
> >
> > --- Physical volume ---
> > PV Name /dev/sdb2
> > VG Name VolGroup00
> > PV Size 232.69 GB / not usable 4.58 MB
> > Allocatable yes
> > PE Size (KByte) 32768
> > Total PE 7446
> > Free PE 4376
> > Allocated PE 3070
> >>
> >> PV UUID DBf14Y-SLFe-cwZy-m1O7-3Jw9-Xhdf-3u42iX
> >>
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > linux-lvm mailing list
> > linux-lvm@redhat.com
> > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm
> > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
> >
>
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-23 15:03 [linux-lvm] How do I use free PE? Rod Rook
2009-10-23 15:38 ` brem belguebli
2009-10-23 15:59 ` Rod Rook [this message]
2009-11-02 5:50 ` Rod Rook
2009-10-23 15:41 ` Stuart D. Gathman
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