[linux-lvm] How can I expand a physical volume ?

[Luca Berra]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 11:35:44AM +0100, Massimiliano wrote:
>Luca Berra ha scritto:
>
>>On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 09:12:53AM +0100, Massimiliano wrote:
>>
>>>Hi !
>>
>>
>>two ways, either create a new partition with the free space,
>>pvcreate it and vgextend your volume group
>>or
>>edit your partition table and make the 2nd partition bigger.
>>(you might need to reboot here)
>>then
>
>Did what you suggested (following the first solution) . Now vgdisplay 
....
>How can I Allocate now the Free PE /Size ? The filesystem available 
>space is still 135 GB...

lvextend to increas the size of the logical volume,

then, the tool to resize whatever filesystem you have on that
resize2fs/ext2resize/ext2online (EXT2/EXT3)
resize_reiserfs/mount -o remount,resize (REISER)
xfs_growfs (XFS)
mount -o remount,resize (JFS)
.....


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