[linux-lvm] pvvolume extension on the same part.
Andreas Dilger
adilger at clusterfs.com
Tue Apr 23 11:47:03 UTC 2002
On Apr 23, 2002 07:26 -0700, Donaldson, Leslie wrote:
> I am trying to set my personal computer using Raid-5 with LVM.
> My problem is the following... I created a device /dev/md4 with a 32 GB
> drive and then after bouncing data and drives around I grew the drive
> to 48 GB drive.
>
> what happened:
> 32 GB raid 5 created (/dev/md3)
> created lvm on 32 /dev/md3
> extended /dev/md3 to 48 GB (raidresize)
>
> Question:
> How to I get lvm to use the new 16GB of drive space
> without reinstalling LVM on the part. (I have data I would like to keep,
> and it's the boot disk.)
In the most recent versions of the LVM user tools there is a "pvresize"
command which does what you want.
Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
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