Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Hi all > > I have a remote server (i.e SSH access only) which was incorrectly > partitioned and I urgently need to get it up and running. It's got a > 500GB HDD, but the PV is only 10GB big, so I can't add more LV's to > to. P.S. This is on LVM, btw. > > [root at nd11176 ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda > > Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 1 33 265041 83 Linux > /dev/sda2 34 1338 10482412+ 8e Linux LVM > /dev/sda3 1339 1860 4192965 82 Linux swap / > Solaris > > [root at nd11176 ~]# pvscan > PV /dev/sda2 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [9.97 GB / 0 free] > Total: 1 [9.97 GB] / in use: 1 [9.97 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ] > > [root at nd11176 ~]# vgscan > Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... > Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2 > > [root at nd11176 ~]# lvscan > ACTIVE '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00' [9.97 GB] inherit > > > > So, my question is, if I extend the Physical Volume, what else do I > need todo in order to add more Logical Volume's? where's the rest of this disk? unpartitioned? create another LVM partition as sda4, and add it to the VolGroup00, then grow LogVol00, and use resize2fs to grow the file system to fill the new LogVol00 size.