Re: [CentOS] Increasing existing partition and LVM size

On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 15:10 -0500, Alfred von Campe wrote:

On Feb 6, 2007, at 13:03, Theo Band wrote:

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I would just create an additional partition /dev/sda3 with the free space. This partition can be added to the PVS:

Of course, why didn't I think of that.

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pvcreate /dev/sda3 vgextend VolGroup00 /dev/sda3 lvextend -L20G /dev/VolGroup00/diskname resize2fs /dev/VolGroup00/diskname 20G

You can also use ext2online to avoid umounting the device A wiki page exists regarding lv extend : http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/ExpandLV

Thanks for the recipe; this worked perfectly.

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If booted from a rescue disk, use lvscan to find the LVM group.