[CentOS] Re: expand physical volume

Mon Oct 8 19:31:12 UTC 2007
Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>

on 10/7/2007 4:16 PM Thomas Antony spake the following:
> 
>> Note that I suggested that you _dont_ resize partitions but create a 
>> new one (new partition with a new pv on it etc.).
>> pvresize resizes the pv _if_ the containing block device or partition 
>> has already been grown.
>>
>>> parted seems to want to resize the file system also and i think this
>>> would make some troubles.
>>> I thought pvresize would do this in one step?
> 
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> Thank you for all your suggestions!
> I will probably will add sdb2, but i would like to know if it is 
> possible to resize a partitition without the filesystem an if yes how do 
> i do that?
> 
> Thomas
You stand more of a chance losing data if you try to resize the partition.

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