Confusion over LVM

[Remi Collet]

Andrew Wood a écrit :
> Dear all,
> 
> I'm using FC6. I  have a 8 gbyte disk on my pc, and I've justed added
> another. Easy enough, ensuring the jumpers for master slave are set, etc.
> 
> I am a bit confused about the LVM. I used this, via the graphical front
> end to add the new physical volume. 

You have extend the "Volume Group"

> 
> I must have missed something, or do I have unfounded expectations of how
> LVM works (i.e. seemlessly)?

I think you need to extent the "Logical Volume".
Think it's not possible with graphical tools (require to umount the
filesystem) with current version...

You should
1/ extent the Logical Volume (lvextent)
2/ extent the filesystem (resize2fs)

Remi