On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Flaherty, Patrick <pflaherty at wsi.com>wrote: > Rudi is right, the easiest/fastest thing to do is to just add the new > partition to the pv and expand your lvs as you see fit. But if someone > ever wants to resize a pv I have done it on some vm hosts. It a touch > scary but straight forward (make backups!). It really can only be done > on drives where the lvm is the last partition, or partitions after the > lvm partition is perishable data (swap). > > The steps (from memory lacking arguments) > * fdisk -l /dev/sda (whatever the physical drive is) and write down all > the partition information (make sure you get block alignment if you've > changed that). > * remove the exisiting lvm partiton and whatever partitions are after > it. > * recreate the lvm partition with whatever extra size you want and set > it's type. The os won't recognize the extra space. > * reboot, the os recognises the space > * run pvresize > * run pvscan > * use vgdisplay to find out how many extents available. if you want to > extend a logical volume to the entire pvolume size. > * use resize2fs to extend the filesystem on the volume online. > * use tune2fs to reduce the number of blocks reserved for root to 1% > > > thanx guys :) I ended up sending the server back to the IDC to have it repartitioned by the techs, since they have direct access to the server and the installation DVD's. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Hosting Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090511/2fa85d8a/attachment-0004.html>