Adding new disk to volume group

[Kory Wheatley]

fdisk -l

Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 36.4 GB, 36414750720 bytes
255 heads, 32 sectors/track, 8716 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8160 * 512 = 4177920 bytes

           Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1               1           2        8144    4  FAT16 <32M
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2   *           3          52      204000   83  Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p4             285        8716    34402560    f  W95 
Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/cciss/c0d0p5             285        8064    31742384   8e  Linux LVM
/dev/cciss/c0d0p6            8065        8578     2097104   82  Linux swap

Disk /dev/cciss/c0d1: 36.4 GB, 36414750720 bytes
255 heads, 32 sectors/track, 8716 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8160 * 512 = 4177920 bytes

Disk /dev/cciss/c0d1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

[root at lx6 cciss]# vgdisplay -v
    Finding all volume groups
    Finding volume group "VolGroup00"
    Fixing up missing format1 size (30.27 GB) for PV /dev/cciss/c0d0p5
  --- Volume group ---
  VG Name               VolGroup00
  System ID
  Format                lvm2
  Metadata Areas        1
  Metadata Sequence No  7
  VG Access             read/write
  VG Status             resizable
  MAX LV                0
  Cur LV                5
  Open LV               5
  Max PV                0
  Cur PV                1
  Act PV                1
  VG Size               30.25 GB
  PE Size               32.00 MB
  Total PE              968
  Alloc PE / Size       870 / 27.19 GB
  Free  PE / Size       98 / 3.06 GB
  VG UUID               psKZl5-5omn-3pqG-S6Ip-i4wR-9OGc-7LSmbP

  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Name                /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
  VG Name                VolGroup00
  LV UUID                Sng7Z5-PTPx-snkr-nAzW-PkKz-LkUt-7TZTaS
  LV Write Access        read/write
  LV Status              available
  # open                 1
  LV Size                4.00 GB
  Current LE             128
  Segments               1
  Allocation             inherit
  Read ahead sectors     0
  Block device           253:0

  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Name                /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
  VG Name                VolGroup00
  LV UUID                nDG0HT-xL9G-xD9D-emyJ-g4mf-huCj-SOvgnz
  LV Write Access        read/write
  LV Status              available
  # open                 1
  LV Size                5.00 GB
  Current LE             160
  Segments               2
  Allocation             inherit
  Read ahead sectors     0
  Block device           253:1

  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Name                /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02
  VG Name                VolGroup00
  LV UUID                P9cXHo-BttJ-IHgo-b8Vw-xPjM-ncxA-Vjcv08
  LV Write Access        read/write
  LV Status              available
  # open                 1
  LV Size                1.00 GB
  Current LE             32
  Segments               1
  Allocation             inherit
  Read ahead sectors     0
  Block device           253:2

  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Name                /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol03
  VG Name                VolGroup00
  LV UUID                lDHKwJ-Y0Lf-3SR4-NoNr-ZjN2-cH4O-B8718x
  LV Write Access        read/write
  LV Status              available
  # open                 1
  LV Size                4.00 GB
  Current LE             128
  Segments               1
  Allocation             inherit
  Read ahead sectors     0
  Block device           253:3

  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Name                /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol04
  VG Name                VolGroup00
  LV UUID                jS7ech-ru2u-08JG-ulZp-sPbr-lfSV-2FsCCO
  LV Write Access        read/write
  LV Status              available
  # open                 1
  LV Size                13.19 GB
  Current LE             422
  Segments               1
  Allocation             inherit
  Read ahead sectors     0
  Block device           253:4

  --- Physical volumes ---
  PV Name               /dev/cciss/c0d0p5
  PV UUID               NTkXuW-R4CJ-HqxT-WYAp-hOjb-8YTB-1Fj0vL
  PV Status             allocatable
  Total PE / Free PE    968 / 98

One volume group was only setup  "VolGroup00"

Geofrey Rainey wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Firstly, please answer these two questions:
>
> 1. what do you see with this command:
>
> # fdisk -l 
>
> 2. How many volume groups do you have? (you can find this information
> With the following command. The -v flag will give more verbose output 
> including the logical volumes associated with each volume group):
>
> # vgdisplay -v
> 		
> Regards,
> Geofrey Rainey
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Kory Wheatley
> Sent: Thursday, 27 September 2007 8:51 a.m.
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Adding new disk to volume group
>
> Currently I'm using Red Hat Enterprise 4 that has two disk on a Hardware
> Raid 1 (Smart Array 5i controller) that is setup in  a Volume Group
> (VolGroup00) with the following logical volumes LogVol00, LogVol01, 
> LogVol02, LogVol03, LogVol04, and LogVol05.    I recently added two more
>
> disks in our system/server  (these are internal disks on a HP Proliant
> DL380 g2) and set these disk as a Hardware Raid 1.  Now I haven't used
> Fdisk or nothing on these new disks. 
>
> Here's my question:  How do I add the new disks to the already existing
> Volume Group so that I can have more space on the Volume Group.  Being a
> Raid1 I know your only adding one disk.  Could someone send me the exact
> commands to use?
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