resize LVM partition

[Gilboa Davara]

On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 20:37 +0200, David Hláčik wrote:
> Hello guys,
> 
> i have removed sda1 partition with Windows , now i have free space on
> disk
> 
> There is 
> 
> sda1 - now free space
> sda2 - /boot
> sda3 - LVM
> 
> Now i want to resize sda3 to take free space over sda1. Is this
> possible? as there is sda2 in way before ...
> Is the best solution to just create sda1 with LVM and then resize my
> volume group to sda1 also?
> 
> Thanks !
> 
> David

AFAIK you cannot re-size the LVM (can you?) but you can add a second
(sda1) physical volume (partition in this case) to an existing LVM.

E.g.

$ vgextend VolGroupName /dev/sda1

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