[CentOS] is it possible to resive a PV in LVM and add more LV's ?

Mon May 11 09:54:41 UTC 2009
Rudi Ahlers <rudiahlers at gmail.com>

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:36 AM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote:

> Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I have a remote server (i.e SSH access only) which was incorrectly
> > partitioned and I urgently need to get it up and running. It's got a
> > 500GB HDD, but the PV is only 10GB big, so I can't add more LV's to
> > to. P.S. This is on LVM, btw.
> >
> > [root at nd11176 ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda
> >
> > Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> >
> >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/sda1   *           1          33      265041   83  Linux
> > /dev/sda2              34        1338    10482412+  8e  Linux LVM
> > /dev/sda3            1339        1860     4192965   82  Linux swap /
> > Solaris
> >
> > [root at nd11176 ~]# pvscan
> >   PV /dev/sda2   VG VolGroup00   lvm2 [9.97 GB / 0    free]
> >   Total: 1 [9.97 GB] / in use: 1 [9.97 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0   ]
> >
> > [root at nd11176 ~]# vgscan
> >   Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
> >   Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2
> >
> > [root at nd11176 ~]# lvscan
> >   ACTIVE            '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00' [9.97 GB] inherit
> >
> >
> >
> > So, my question is, if I extend the Physical Volume, what else do I
> > need todo in order to add more Logical Volume's?
> where's the rest of this disk?  unpartitioned?    create another LVM
> partition as sda4, and add it to the VolGroup00, then grow LogVol00, and
> use resize2fs to grow the file system to fill the new LogVol00 size.
> _______________________________________________
>

Hi John,

It seems like the tech @ the data centre has only created a 10GB partition,
and since I only have SSH access to the server, I've decided to send the
server back to have it properly repartitioned.


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Kind Regards
Rudi Ahlers
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