[CentOS] "No free sectors available" while try to extend logical volumen in a virtual machine running CentOS 6.5

Tue Oct 28 02:25:49 UTC 2014
reynierpm at gmail.com <reynierpm at gmail.com>

Uppsss I think this goes more and more advanced all the time but here I go
.... more doubts

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Ted Miller <tedlists at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> If I were in your position, I think I would:
> * Create a new, 80GB disk using VMWare
>

Not problem at all


> * Partition that disk into your /boot and LVM partitions
>

How I do that out of the box? I mean should I mount that disk in the VM and
partition from there, right?


> * pvcreate
> * vgcreate
>

Ok, create physical volume and volume group


> * lvcreate the disk structure you want in your new disk, making sure all
> LVs are at least a little bigger than the old ones.
>

Here I get lost, what structure should I create here? I only have one LV
lv_root you mean create the same and of course bigger than the old one,
right?


> * use dd to copy disks from old drives to corresponding old drives
>

And here I declare myself complete lost, this is the first time I see this
command and don't know how to use it


> * use resize2fs to expand your file system to the full size of each of the
> LVs you created.
> * detach old virtual disk from your VM
> * reboot, and see if you succeeded
>
> If I forgot something here, hopefully someone else will chime in.  The
> idea is to dump your corrupted LVM structure without loosing its content.
>