howto extendlvm

[bastian v.s]

example

lvdisplay

umount  /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
lvextend -L <mention size> /dev/VolGroup00-LogVol00
resize2fs  -f /dev/VolGroup00-LogVol00

init 6
mount  -a

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:31 PM, madunix <madunix at gmail.com> wrote:

> I want to extend an existing lvm ( volume group "VolGroup00" using
> metadata type lvm2)
> [root at linux2 ~]# df -kh
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
>                       58G   12G   44G  21% /
> /dev/sda1              99M   27M   68M  29% /boot
> tmpfs                 7.9G     0  7.9G   0% /dev/shm
> [root at linux2 ~]# vgscan
>  Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
>  Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2
> [root at linux2 ~]# lvmdiskscan
>  /dev/ram0                [       16.00 MB]
>  /dev/root                [       58.84 GB]
>  /dev/ram                 [       16.00 MB]
>  /dev/sda1                [      101.94 MB]
>  /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 [        8.78 GB]
>  /dev/ram2                [       16.00 MB]
>  /dev/sda2                [       67.65 GB] LVM physical volume
>  /dev/ram3                [       16.00 MB]
>  /dev/ram4                [       16.00 MB]
>  /dev/ram5                [       16.00 MB]
>  /dev/ram6                [       16.00 MB]
>  /dev/ram7                [       16.00 MB]
>  /dev/ram8                [       16.00 MB]
>  /dev/ram9                [       16.00 MB]
>  /dev/ram10               [       16.00 MB]
>  /dev/ram11               [       16.00 MB]
>  /dev/ram12               [       16.00 MB]
>  /dev/ram13               [       16.00 MB]
>  /dev/ram14               [       16.00 MB]
>  /dev/ram15               [       16.00 MB]
>  2 disks
>  17 partitions
>  0 LVM physical volume whole disks
>  1 LVM physical volume
> [root at linux2 ~]# fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 72.7 GB, 72746008576 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8844 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
> /dev/sda2              14        8844    70935007+  8e  Linux LVM
> [root at linux2 ~]#
>
> Can you point out the safe way to do it?
> Am thinking to do the following steps on my RHEL5.1
> vgs
> pvcreate /dev/lun2
> vgextend vg01 /dev/lun2
> lvextend -L +1G /dev/vg01/lv01
> resize2fs /mount/point/of/lv01
>
> Thanks
>
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