On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:36 AM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > Hi John, It seems like the tech @ the data centre has only created a 10GB partition, and since I only have SSH access to the server, I've decided to send the server back to have it properly repartitioned. -- 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/20090511/983a2cba/attachment-0005.html>