Clint Dilks wrote: > On 19/02/10 10:11, Eric B. wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I was wondering if there was a way to extend (ie: grow) a PV that is part of >> a Volume Group? I currently have a partition on my HD that is being used as >> a PV for my Volume Group, but would like to make it larger. I have the >> space on my drive to extend my partition, but using standard tools (ex: >> gparted, Partition Magic, etc) would likely end up corrupting the data on in >> the Logical Volumes that are housed within the VG. >> >> I realize that I could just create a new partition on my HD and just add it >> to my Volume Group and extend my Volume Group, however, given that it would >> be two contiguous partitions on the HD, I was just wondering if there was a >> way of resizing the original partition within the VG without causing any >> problems. >> >> I tried looking at tools like pvresize but I can't seem to understand the >> right arguments to use it as whatever I try never seems to resize the >> original partition itself. I also looked at system-config-lvm GUI tool, but >> that doesn't seem to allow me to make the PV any larger. >> >> Does anyone have any suggestions? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Eric >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> >> > Hi I remember having done this once recently on a test system. And I > strongly suggest you don't attempt unless you have a good backup. You > use the standard tools to resize the partition and then pvresize to see > the new size of the PV. Once you can see that the new size of the PV is > recognised by the VG you can allocate the space. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Hi, This was discusssed back in May by Gavin Carr http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-May.txt Phil.