On Feb 6, 2007, at 13:03, Theo Band wrote: > 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. > pvcreate /dev/sda3 > vgextend VolGroup00 /dev/sda3 > lvextend -L20G /dev/VolGroup00/diskname > resize2fs /dev/VolGroup00/diskname 20G Thanks for the recipe; this worked perfectly. > If booted from a rescue disk, > use lvscan to find the LVM group. Since the VG contained the root file system, I had to boot from a rescue disk (the CentOS 4.4 LiveCD ISO in my case) in order to do the resize2fs. But everything worked flawlessly. Thanks again, I am up and running with the new, bigger filesystem. Now all I have left to fix is the annoying slow clock issue with running a Linux VM on a Windows host. All the documented workaround for this issue have not helped so far... Alfred