[linux-lvm] How do I pvresize?

Chris Laycock LAYCOCKC at uk.ibm.com
Tue Mar 23 09:37:10 UTC 2004


Glen,

If you do a pvscan do you get  'PV "/dev/sda1"  etc' or 'PV "/dev/sda" 
etc'
If you get the former could you not create /dev/sda2 with the extra 250GB 
and add that to the LV as a separate PV
I'm assuming that you can have different partitions on the same array 
(actual disk) defined as separate PVs
I may be completely off track here, please feel free to correct.....

Regards,

Chris.

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I have already expanded the RAID slice by 250Gb, and now have a
/dev/sda which is 250Gb larger than it was before.

I now cannot remove that disk without either rebuilding the RAID
on the hot spare(back to square one) or destroying the RAID.

Please, can someone help me?

David Mohr wrote:
> I'm pretty new to LVM, so take my comment with a grain of salt.
> 
> Why do you need to resize the PV at all? If you need more space, create
> a new PV and add it to the LV, that should do the trick.
> 
> ~David
> 
> On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 15:01, Glen Harris wrote:
> 
>>We started running out of space on our backup server, so I bought a
>>couple of new 250Gb disks, added them to the 16 bay FC RAID array
>>and expanded the RAID, followed by the slice.
>>
>>I then went to expand the PV, and got a "Command not implemented yet."
>>message.
>>
>>This is a problem. This is a *BIG* problem.
>>
>>What are my options, short of destroying the volume and starting
>>from scratch?
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