Why don't you just make a new partition and add it to the VG, then expand the LV. Isn't that the point of LVM? -------------------------------------------------- Mr Lyn Rees Senior Engineer, UIG Information Services Computing Centre Cardiff University, 40-41 Park Place, Cardiff. CF10 3BB. -------------------------------------------------- Contact numbers: (029) 2087 9188 (direct) (029) 2087 4875 (reception) (029) 2087 4285 (fax) -------------------------------------------------- Email: rees@cardiff.ac.uk Web: <a href=www.cardiff.ac.uk>www.cardiff.ac.uk</a> From: "Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart@bmsi.com> To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com> Date: 03/03/2011 20:27 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Resizing underlying LVM partition after cloning to bigger disk Sent by: linux-lvm-bounces@redhat.com <hr noshade> <tt>On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Scott Arthur wrote: > 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? You are getting to a size where msdos partition tables are risky. Don't they crap out at 2TB? -- Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@bmsi.com> Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154 "Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis" - background song for a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial. _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com </tt><a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm"><tt>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm</tt></a><tt> read the LVM HOW-TO at </tt><a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/"><tt>http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/</tt></a><tt> </tt>