[rhelv6-list] LVM and "unpartioned space"

[solarflow99]

that tool has been depreciated for a while, I noticed a few minor things
wrong with it before.  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517759

  I'm sure you'll have excellent results with gpated



On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Marco Shaw <marco.shaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> I actually prefer CLI, but I'm researching this for a mainly Windows OS
> admin audience.
>
> I'll try again, I'm pretty sure the LVM GUI wasn't allowing me to expand
> the volume group in my particular example.  The disk is already
> initialized, so it seems it isn't possible to do anything with the extra
> space as a result.  Again, from the LVM GUI only...
>
> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 8:18 PM, solarflow99 <solarflow99 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I think what you need to do is expand the volume group, then increase any
>> of your logical volumes within it.  then you should be able to do a
>> resize2fs online.  If you have a preference to use a GUI tool, I know
>> gparted live works well.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Marco Shaw <marco.shaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm playing around trying to see how to resize disks with RHEL6.4 on
>>> VMware Workstation 9.
>>>
>>> I installed the OS and used up 20GB of /dev/sda (with /boot, lv_root and
>>> lv_swap).  Then I went in VMware and increased the disk (/dev/sda) from
>>> 20GB to 25GB.
>>>
>>> Now in the LVM GUI, I see that extra 5GB in /dev/sda as "Unpartioned
>>> space".  Specifically in the LVM *GUI*, can I do anything with this space
>>> to make it usable?  Do I have to go to the command-line to create a
>>> partition first?
>>>
>>> Also:
>>> sg3_utils has a "scsi-rescan" command (reference
>>> http://jreypo.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/how-to-rescan-the-scsi-bus-in-linux/).
>>> Is there a GUI equivalent?
>>>
>>
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