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From: Michael Ole Olsen <gnu@gmx.net>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: how to resize volume group lvm2?
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090612185841.GA14231@rlogin.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090612183339.GB4936@clouds>

How do I resize my volume group with lvm2?

vgextend needs new devices but I only have one device md0 for all my physical
volumes.

I know how to resize my logical volumes under the volume group, but somehow
the volume group st1500 did not extend after raid5 reshape with mdadm?

Is my only option backing up 8TB of data and creating a new volume group?

I dont want to add sd[ai] here with vgextend as lvm2 is on top of 
mdadm so I guess I should have only one device for my VG?

/Michael Ole Olsen

mfs:~# fdisk -l /dev/md0

Disk /dev/md0: 12002.4 GB, 12002414559232 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, -1364690304 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/md0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

mfs:~# vgdisplay
  --- Volume group ---
  VG Name               st1500
  System ID             
  Format                lvm2
  Metadata Areas        1
  Metadata Sequence No  4
  VG Access             read/write
  VG Status             resizable
  MAX LV                0
  Cur LV                2
  Open LV               1
  Max PV                0
  Cur PV                1
  Act PV                1
  VG Size               8,19 TB
  PE Size               4,00 MB
  Total PE              2146198
  Alloc PE / Size       2104832 / 8,03 TB
  Free  PE / Size       41366 / 161,59 GB
  VG UUID               1Rl7ly-OguV-fEbS-TU8F-7tdM-9YH3-wKc9F6

lvm> help vgextend
  vgextend: Add physical volumes to a volume group

vgextend
        [-A|--autobackup y|n]
        [-d|--debug]
        [-h|--help]
        [-t|--test]
        [-v|--verbose]
        [--version]
        VolumeGroupName PhysicalDevicePath [PhysicalDevicePath...]

  Command failed with status code 0.
lvm> vgextend st1500 /dev/md0
  Physical volume '/dev/md0' is already in volume group 'st1500'
  Unable to add physical volume '/dev/md0' to volume group 'st1500'.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-12 18:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-10 21:58 Strange RAID behaviour when faced with user error Jody McIntyre
2009-06-10 22:19 ` John Robinson
2009-06-10 22:23   ` John Robinson
2009-06-12 18:33   ` Jody McIntyre
2009-06-12 18:58     ` Michael Ole Olsen [this message]
2009-06-12 19:14       ` how to resize volume group lvm2? Michael Ole Olsen
2009-06-12 19:15       ` Tapani Tarvainen

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