LVM of VolGroup00 with LogVol00
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Tue Jun 20 10:15:27 UTC 2006
Patrick Nelson wrote:
> FC4 Up to date
>
> I went to do an Upgrade to FC5 and I don't have enough room on my system
> (which is a VMware Instance). So I thought well lets just extend the
> Logical Volume. The only problem is that LogVol00 is mounted to /. My
> head is sore from trying to find a way to run resize2fs on this LV when
> it is mounted on /. Is this even possible? I guess I could create a
> new LV in VolGroup00 and mount it to /var, but I started down this road
> and I'm kinda hoping I can figure it out.
>
> So far I've done:
>
> pvcreate /dev/sdb
> vgextend VolGroup00 /dev/sdb
> lvextend -l 267 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /dev/sdb
> all worked fine, but of course:
> resize2fs /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 - doesn't work because its mounted.
>
> Any suggestions would be great. I am working out the /var to a LV thing
> but...
You can try this:
# ext2online /
However, with a size change as big as that it probably won't be able to
help you. You'll need to boot from the rescue/install CD to resize the
filesystem using resize2fs.
Paul.
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