[CentOS] Resize Logical Volume

Thu Feb 14 20:06:48 UTC 2008
Max Hetrick <maxhetrick at verizon.net>

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Ivan Arteaga wrote:

> I have a CentOS 4.4 running on a server with a 136GB hard drive, i have
> three different logical volumens and i would like to resize one of them
> ( / ) with some idle space remaining in the hard drive. Can i do it with
> the server running or should i use the boot cd in order to do that?


Hi, Ivan.

You can extend it while running, but can't decrease the size while running.

To extend.

lvextend -L+1G /dev/yourvg/volume
resize2fs /dev/yourvg/volume

Regards,
Max
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